Hannah Arendt Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Space

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

• Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Men, Giving

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

• I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

  Hannah Arendt

  Giving Up, Feminism, Desire

• Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

  Hannah Arendt

  Order, Giving, Facts

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