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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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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attempts, Be Free, liberate, subject to, wholly
«This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.»
«Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.»
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
bestows, flux, hazardous, snatched, snatches
«Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
anti, apolitical, rarity, unworldly
«To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.»
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
domestic, dubious, international affairs, International Relations, specifically
«Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
belonged, developments, dreamed, firmly, instance, privileges, Scientific progress, technical
«It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, potentiality, recorded, stays
«We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
abundance, activities, common denominator, denominator, denominators, leveling, necessities, providing, securing, succeeded