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Hannah Arendt Quotes
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
accident, automatic, destroys, For Better or Worse, frame, occurrences, pattern, prediction, predictions, procedures, processes, projection, projections, unexpected
«Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Guilt
| Keywords:
collective, Confessions, culprit, culprits, Discovery of, doing nothing, safeguard, The Discovery
«There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
civil disobedience, civil law, clandestine, glaringly, in the public eye, neglected, public eye, The Public Eye, violation, violations
«If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: ''How do you want the world to be in fifty years?'' and ''What do you want your life to be like five years from now?'' the answers are quite often preceded by ''Provided there is still a world'' and ''Provided I am still alive.'' To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Fifty one, member, preceded, tempted, tick, ticking, ticks, utterly
«The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
ceaseless, erudition, Famous Or, irrelevancies, irrelevancy, pseudo, scholarship, sheer
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Guilt
| Keywords:
depressing, gratifying, repent
«What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
calculated, dullness, fanaticism, Himmler, Hitler, hysterical, meticulous, Molotov, resemble, sensual, stubborn, vindictive
«The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.»
«Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.»
