Quotes from Hannah Arendt

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.