Logo
Quote by Hannah Arendt
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst e

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. – 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
Author
Hannah Arendt
Read Quote

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Freedom
Author
Hannah Arendt
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
best
category

Cynical realism is the intelligent mans best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
best

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon

Category:
best

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then its not yours anymore. Its laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated. – Ville Valo

Category:
best

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. – Mark Twain

Category:
best

Random Quotes

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

Category:
Age

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty. – Nan Hayworth

Category:
Wisdom

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. – Peter Drucker

Category:
Leadership

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. – Elie Wiesel

Category:
Truth