Creative Quotations from Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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.

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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.

Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

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.