Hannah Arendt ( 10 of 15 )
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are read more
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes read more
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of read more
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.