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Hannah Arendt: top 100 quotes
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The Jew (n.) is always - or at least should have always been - an active agent, not a passive object of history.
The Jew (n.) is, in some part, responsible for the rise of antisemitism in europe because they isolated themselves from the phenomenon of 'society', thus cutting themselves off from reality and rendering themselves weak.
The Jew (n.) is indicative of a group that did not establish a public identity and for this reason, had no power to resist the evils of totalitarianism.
The Jew (n.) found Jewishness, in the equivocal world of the salons, at once a physical stain and a mysterious personal privilege, both inherent in a "racial predestination."
Politics (n.) is far too serious to be left to the politicians.
Politics (n.) is a sphere where what is at stake is not life, but the world, and as such the experiences of equality, plurality, amor mundi and excellence in action and speech.
Agency (n.) is coincident with freedom. It is not simply an inner subjective disposition but a feature of intersubjective experience that arises though human togetherness.
Agency (n.) is a non-instrumental mode of being. It is being alive to the boundlessness and unpredictability of human action and the sheer power and joy of doing.
Agency (n.) is about revealing oneself to others, presenting oneself through deeds and words.
Storytelling (n.) reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The City (n.) is physical expression of of the political.
Culture (n.) is neither society nor art nor religion nor entertainment, but the nature of the relationship between these things. It is the relationship between society and its objects.
Culture (n.) is the attitude in operation when society and its common sense confront the images, products, and events of that society.
Action (n.) is the worldly and public capacity 'to bring the new, unexpected, and unanticipated into the world', to defy existing categories. Characterized by its ineliminable freedom.
Taste (n.) is disturbing because it is not communicable. No argument can persuade one to like oysters if one does not like them.
Equality (n.) is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Antisemitism (n.) is a grounded in an opposition between 'state' and 'society'. When society came in conflict with the state, they came into conflict with Jews as their target of first opportunity.
Antisemitism (n.) is a purely modern phenomenon (there is no 'eternal anti-semitism), and it has to be understood exclusively as a political phenomenon, not a social or an economic one, and it has nothing to do with nationalism per se.
Antisemitism (n.) is a result of the decline of the nation-state, whose original consolidation into a force had relied on Jewish financial resources and had rewarded the jews with social privileges both to make them dependent upon the state and to prevent their integration into 'society'.