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Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power."

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen."

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.




Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.




Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings."

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future."

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it."

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.




Hannah Arendt Quotes: "With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality."

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company."

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound."

Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals."

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves."

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.




Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company."

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal."

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "We all carry fault within."

We all carry fault within.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival."

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody."

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all."

One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence."

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving."

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence."

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home."

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.



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."

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: "Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought."

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it."

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate."

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning."

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think."

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is."

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces."

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience."

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength."

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented."

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent"

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true."

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.



Hannah Arendt Quotes: "Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.