Hannah Arendt Quotes
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.Hannah Arendt
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
Sammy Cahn -
I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
Taylor Sheridan -
Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
Gary Weiss -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
Mahavira -
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. Howe
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
Albert Einstein -
One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life.
Matthew James Thomas -
'Night' may be one of the most important books that people can read today. It is a story of how hate can slowly take over a society. It shows what happens when people are dehumanized.
Clemantine Wamariya -
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
Katherine Heigl -
When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
Drew Barrymore -
The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
David Satcher
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I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
Alvin Lee -
The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
Whitney Houston -
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
Oswald Chambers -
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug -
I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.
Chris Matthews
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The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
Urvashi Vaid -
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.
Campbell McGrath -
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
Hannah Arendt