Creative Quotations from . . .
Hannah Arendt
(1906-1975) born on Oct 14
German-US political scientist. She is best known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.
 
   
F
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises."

R
"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."
A
"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."
N
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
K
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Crises of the Republic, "On Violence," sct. 1 (1972)."
R: "quoted in W. H. Auden, 'A Certain World'"
A: ""The Human Condition," "Action," ch. 24, 1958."
N: "Crises of the Republic, "Civil Disobedience" (1972)."
K: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."



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