Quote of Hannah Arendt - No cause is left but the...

Biography - Hannah Arendt:

German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
Hannah Arendt

Quotes about freedom:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”
Nelson Mandela

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

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Quotes for: politics:

Man is by nature a political animal.”
Aristotle

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.”
Paul Valéry - Tel quel

politics

Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.”
Demosthenes

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
Albert Einstein - The World as I See It

Politics have no relation to morals.”
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Hannah Arendt also said...

Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.”
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.”
Hannah Arendt

to live

Finding the right words at the right moment is action.”
Hannah Arendt

Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.”
Hannah Arendt

to think

The meaning of politics is freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

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