Hannah Arendt Quotes
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
Vance McAllister
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
Edith Evans
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
Leon Uris
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
William O. Douglas
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt
