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Hannah Arendt

Quote of Hannah Arendt - Political questions are far too serious...


Biography - Hannah Arendt:

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

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.



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Quotes for: politics


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Quotes for: politics


Man is by nature a political animal.





Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.





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.





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





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





Politics have no relation to morals.











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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





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.





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





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.





Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.





What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.












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