Quotes By Hannah Arendt

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

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.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

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.

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.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

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.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.