Quotes by Arendt, Hannah

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlie >>

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political >>

Quotations about Effort

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with dili >>

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own >>

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our b >>

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Arendt, Hannah