Hannah Arendt Quotes

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975

Topics

PowerKnowStreetLyingUpWho

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Joe Namath

AnimalProblemsThinkProblemAlways

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

John Green

TimeWantMy TimeRealizedMinister

Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

Andrew Sean Greer

Keep GoingYouFinishTellGoing

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LoveCharacterGratitudeGreatRich

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GreatSlaveryImpossibleInjustice

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Amy Alcott

AdviceYouGiveUnlessAsked

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam.

Mildred Dresselhaus

MusicSchoolPracticeMeThinkKnow

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Joseph Hume

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The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with my faith; I am deeply religious. It goes back to my roots, to my mom and my dad.

Dikembe Mutombo

FaithI AmMomRootsBackPlace

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

Craig Ferguson

GetCorporateEmails

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

Boy George

MyselfStrongPoliticalBeing Myself

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

GoodThinkingBadNothingEither

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