Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Hannah Arendt Quotes




Hannah Arendt Jewish-American 

political theorist

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#Quotes

In politics, love is a 

stranger,and when it intrudes 

upon it nothing is being 

achieved 

except hypocrisy. 


All the characteristics you 

stress in the Negro people: their

 beauty, their capacity for joy, 

their warmth, and their 

humanity, 

 are well-known characteristics  

of all oppressed people.

 They grow out of suffering and 

they are the proudest possession 

of all pariahs. 


Unfortunately, they have never 

survived the hour of liberation 

by even five minutes. Hatred and 

love belong together, and they 

are both destructive; you can 

afford them only in private and, 

as a people, only so long as you 

are not free.

-Letter to James Baldwin (21 

November 1962)

 Narrative reveals Concepts 

without making the mistake of 

defending them 

~Hannah Arendt.


Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to 

necessitybecause his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

In an ever-changing, 

incomprehensible world the 

masses had reached the point where they 

would, at the same time, believe 

everything and nothing, think 

that everything was possible and 

that nothing was true. 


[…] under such conditions, one 

could make people believe the 

most fantastic statements one 

day, and trust that if the next 

day they were given irrefutable 

proof of their falsehood, they 

would take refuge in cynicism; 


instead of deserting the leaders 

who had lied to them, they would 

protest that they had known all 

along that the statement was a 

lie and would admire the leaders 

for their superior tactical

cleverness.



The totalitarian attempt at 

global conquest and total 

domination has been the 

destructive way out of 

all impasses. 


Its victory may coincide with 

the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

if it is true that in the final 

stages of totalitarianism an 

absolute evil appears (absolute 

because it can no longer be 

deduced from humanly 

comprehensible motives), it is 

also true that without it we 

might never have known the 

truly. 

radical nature of Evil.


aloofness without policy does 

not imply even the minimum concern 

of. the oppressor for the 

oppressed.

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