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Hannah Arendt

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.


— Hannah Arendt


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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.


— Hannah Arendt


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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.


— Hannah Arendt


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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.


— Hannah Arendt


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


— Hannah Arendt


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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.


— Hannah Arendt


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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.


— Hannah Arendt


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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.


— Hannah Arendt


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


— 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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