Hannah Arendt

14 October 1906 - 4 December 1975

German Jewish political theorist who escaped to the United States in 1941, becoming the first woman to be appointed to a full professorship at Princeton University.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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