The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah ArendtHis [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
Hannah ArendtIdeological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.
Hannah ArendtKierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
Hannah Arendt