Hannah Arendt Quotes

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Only the educated are free.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

We are unable to recognize the laws of necessity if we believe we are free

The individual is greater than the state.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

Self Emancipation

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Each of us wants to be free. But if we want to be free, we also need to appreciate that others also desire the same thing.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.