Hannah Arendt Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

  Hannah Arendt

  Meaningful, Freedom, Automation

• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

  Hannah Arendt

  Freedom, Taken, Progress

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion, Holocaust, Essentials

  Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

• Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Meaningful, Work, Decision

• ... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Work, Numbers

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