Hannah Arendt on life
Hannah Arendt97 quotes“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.”
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt 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 ArendtHannah Arendt 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 ArendtHannah Arendt Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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