Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. – Hannah Arendt
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. – Hannah Arendt
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger