Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

Topics: Commitment Quotes, Future Quotes

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

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....

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

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...

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

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

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

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

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

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers And laid entwined together in a...

I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers And laid entwined together in a...