Hannah Arendt Quotes & Quotations

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.

» 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.

» 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.

» Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

» 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.

» Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

» 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.

» Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

» The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

» The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

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