Quotes by Arendt, Hannah

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybod >>

If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do yo >>

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms >>

Quotations about Protest

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and >>

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, an >>

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than >>

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Arendt, Hannah