Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 9

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• the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

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  Morning, Freedom, Decision

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

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  Power, Government, Evil

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

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  Emotion, States, Feels

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

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  Political, Events, Revolution

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.30, Penguin

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• For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

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  Country, Simple, People

  "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter XIV, 1963.

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• power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

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  Power, Self, Political

  Origins of Totalitarianism ch. 5 (1951)

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• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

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  Acceptance, Self, Expression

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• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

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  Confusion, Holocaust, Essentials

  Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

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• What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

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  Motivational, Change, Country

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

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  Past, Lost, Significance

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

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  Life, Thinking, Doe

  Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.271, Stanford University Press

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• Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

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  Men, Make Sense, Meaningfulness

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

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  Wise, Thinking, Yield

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• Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

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  Devil, Helping, Guilty

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• 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.

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  Death, Dying, Quiet

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.180, HMH

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• The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

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  Men, World, Makers

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• It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

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  Thinking, Ordinary, Demand

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

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  Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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  Life, Excess, Common

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• The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

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  Art, Conflict

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• Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

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  Thinking, Mind, Matter

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

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  Frustration, Men, Temptation

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• Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

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  Order, Giving, Facts

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• It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

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  Government, Opponents, Dramatic

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.206, Penguin

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• Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

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  Integrity, Deeds, Company

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