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They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world’s reality is actually expressed by their escape (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
If it is true... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true? (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
What I cannot live with may not bother another man’s conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday’s executioner becomes today’s victim (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won (Hannah Arendt Quotes)