All Hannah Arendt Quotes
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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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.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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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.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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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.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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