Arendt

Famous quotes containing the word arendt:

    Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods—moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former—but no opinion.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)