Quotes by Arendt, Hannah

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most >>

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends >>

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of s >>

Quotations about Prediction

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the oppo >>

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner i >>

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man >>

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Arendt, Hannah