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Hannah Arendt Quotes
«The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
lifeless, modes, mortals, removed, such that, symptoms, The Human Condition
«The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
deceiver, deceivers, deceiving, efficiency, falsehoods, ineradicable, in public, liar, possesses, prevail, primacy
«The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
amounts, for all practical purposes, odds, overwhelming, probability, purposes
«Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
attracted, mob, propaganda, The Masses, the mob, totalitarianism
«Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Commitment,
Future
| Keywords:
extent, humanly, ordering, orderings, predictable, promises, reliable, uniquely
«Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, definite, Plato, teachings
«When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
assembly, asserted, association, dispel, economic freedom, enterprise, freedoms, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, free association, free enterprise, fruits, minor, monstrous, Political freedom, unmixed, well-being
«No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
customs, factors, foremost, framework, legal system, regulate, stability, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, systems, Traditions, wherein, world affairs
