Hannah Arendt Quotes

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Hannah Arendt

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• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Face
  • Institutions
  • Fraud

• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • About
  • Tyranny
  • Oligarchy

• 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
  • Success
  • Science
  • Culture

• I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Work
  • Hell
  • Destroys

• Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Time
  • History
  • Knows

• 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
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Past

• 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
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Party

• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Justice
  • Authority
  • Tyranny

• Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Experience
  • True
  • Nature

• The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

  

  Urvashi Vaid
  • Movement
  • Institutions
  • LGBT

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

  

  Plato
  • Human being
  • Destroys
  • Lack

• all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Tyranny

• In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Healthy
  • Nation
  • Tyranny

• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sincerity
  • Destroys

• What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Destroys
  • Automaton

• In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Criticism
  • Corruption
  • Institutions

• Hate destroys the hater.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Destroys

• Just draw 'cause you love it, you know, I think that's why you should be doing it. You should always be doing art for the right reasons, um, and with the best intentions. Anything at all is completely possible and I think that's what I like about drawing. I think it's just really fun. You can do anything you want. And that's part of, like, what's really enjoyable about it... is kind of losing yourself in it.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Best

• Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.

  

  Anne Mallory
  • World
  • Option
  • Defaults

• There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Character
  • God Is
  • My Soul

• You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

  

  Douglas McGrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • About

• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Tyranny
  • Institutions
  • Destroys