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Hannah Arendt

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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.


— Hannah Arendt


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


— Hannah Arendt


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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.


— Hannah Arendt


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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.


— Hannah Arendt


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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.


— Hannah Arendt


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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.


— Hannah Arendt


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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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Bureaucracies then become the ideal birthplaces of violence since they are defined as the "rule by no one" against whom to argue and therefore re-create the missing links with the people they rule over. The dissertation was publiHannah Arendtd in 1929. With the German military occupation of northern France during World War II and the deportation of Jews to Nazi concentration camps even by the Vichy collaborator regime in the unoccupied south Arendt was compelled to leave France.

" Arendt's work deals with the nature of power and the subjects of politics authority and totalitarianism. Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (October 14 1906 – December 4 1975) was a German-American political theorist. Though often described as a philosopher Hannah Arendt 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.

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