Hannah Arendt

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ”

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. ”

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. ”

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ”

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. ”

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ”

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

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ”

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. ”

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ”