Hannah Arendt Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

  Hannah Arendt

  Wisdom, Different, Alternatives

• Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Power, Names, Numbers

  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

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