Hannah Arendt Quotes

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

Hannah Arendt

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Work
  • U.S.
  • Observation

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Good
  • Science
  • Professional

• I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Beat

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learning

• Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Free
  • Car
  • Horse

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Back
  • Go

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Now
  • Little
  • Broadway

• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Thought

• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Thing
  • Vanity

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

  

  Martha Hunt
  • Up
  • Live
  • Growing

• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Best
  • Theatre
  • Same

• Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Wisdom

• Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

  

  Anohni
  • Stop
  • Boy

• Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Violence
  • Creating
  • Destroy