Hannah Arendt Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strength, Independence, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

  Hannah Arendt

  Individual Strength, Independence, Groups

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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