They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.
Hannah ArendtLegitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
Hannah ArendtThe greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah ArendtPhilosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
Hannah ArendtEven though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.
Hannah Arendt