In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
"Johanna" ""Hannah"" "Arendt" was a Germany/German-born political theory/political theorist. Though often described as a philosopher, she rejected that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular" and instead described herself as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world."Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998. As an assimilated Jews/Jew, she escaped Europe during the Holocaust and became an United States/American citizen. Her works deal with the nature of power (sociology)/power, and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. The Hannah Arendt Prize is named in her honor.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous historians! More Hannah Arendt on Wikipedia.There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
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.
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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