Hannah Arendt Quotes

This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

Hannah Arendt

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• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Faith

• Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Justice

• The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Passion
  • Travel

• I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Men
  • Family
  • Fighting

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• Fallen man is free to choose what he desires, but because his desires are only wicked he lacks the moral ability to come to Christ. As long as he remains in the flesh, unregenerate, he will never choose Christ. He cannot choose Christ precisely because he cannot act against his own will. His fall is so great that only the effectual grace of God working in his heart can bring him to faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Use

• There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Failure

• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Power

• Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'

  

  Jincy Willett
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Paris

• Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • College

• And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Voice

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Pornography

• I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Children
  • Connection
  • Mother`s

• Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Mind
  • Killed

• I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Created
  • I Hope
  • Manifestation