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.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which...

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing...

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear...

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what...

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

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

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil...

Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.