Hannah Arendt
Johanna "Hannah" Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German American political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world." Arendt's work deals with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism.
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Famous quotes by hannah arendt:
“The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of ‘living well,’ which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“We are all dead men on leave.”
—Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburg’s lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, ‘Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919,’ sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968)