Quotes by Arendt, Hannah

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal w >>

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, an >>

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

Quotations about Freedom

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces >>

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which >>

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do >>

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Arendt, Hannah