Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
HANNAH ARENDTSlavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
HANNAH ARENDTPlurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.
HANNAH ARENDTTools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
HANNAH ARENDTThere are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDTThe point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
HANNAH ARENDTFor politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
HANNAH ARENDTThe third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
HANNAH ARENDTColonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
HANNAH ARENDTThere is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
HANNAH ARENDTEvil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
HANNAH ARENDTThe crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
HANNAH ARENDTWe first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
HANNAH ARENDTMen in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
HANNAH ARENDTThe organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
HANNAH ARENDTSocial and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
HANNAH ARENDTOnly the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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