Hannah arendt

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.