Hannah Arendt Quotes

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Hannah Arendt

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Decision
  • Without

• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Courtesy
  • Added

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  

  Ian Wright
  • People
  • End
  • Name

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

• Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Character
  • Football

• I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

  

  Mary Harris Jones
  • Up

• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Real
  • History
  • Mother

• If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Live
  • History
  • Don't Know