Hannah Arendt Quotes

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomManFreeKnowNeverAlways

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Jesse Ventura

StrengthReligionPeopleNumbersWho

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.

Maya Angelou

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You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Michael Haneke

GoodArtExperienceWarLiterature

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

MarriageFirstBreathConstraints

Getting upset about Netflix, to me, is like getting upset about the weather. It's just something that's happening, and we have to decide what we feel about it.

Steven Soderbergh

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I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

Travis Barker

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It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities.

Tony Evans

WinPersonalCaptainChristChurches

Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.

Martin O'Malley

PartyDemocratsLevelBeenNational

Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

Joshua Henry

LifeRelationshipChildhoodPastYou

If food were free, why work?

Douglas Horton

WorkFoodFreeWhyWere

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

Debbie Reynolds

PoorAlwaysRatherWereNeededHad

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeGoodUnderstandingYouBand

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