in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.
Hannah ArendtThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah ArendtStorytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah ArendtThe aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah ArendtThe common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah ArendtAs citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
Hannah ArendtThe point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
Hannah ArendtNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah ArendtThe sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah ArendtMan 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.
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