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the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

Hannah Arendt
Morning, Freedom, Decision
Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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
Freedom, Successful, Men
Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

Hannah Arendt
Country, Freedom, Blessing

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

Hannah Arendt
Freedom, Taken, Progress
Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Hannah Arendt
Freedom, Space, Human Nature

It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

Hannah Arendt
Meaningful, Freedom, Automation

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