Quote by Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. – Hannah Arendt

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
power
Read Quote

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Words
Read Quote

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

Category:
Freedom
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Promises
category

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Promises

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. – Peter F. Drucker

Category:
Promises

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Promises

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? – Chuck Palahniuk

Category:
Promises

Random Quotes

Nothing beats a great smile. – Karl Urban

Category:
smile

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesnt do soul food. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

Category:
Food

Go big or go home. Because its true. What do you have to lose? – Eliza Dushku

Category:
Home

If I had my life to live again. Id make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

Category:
Mistakes