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Hannah Arendt: Promises are the...

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

Source: Crises of the Republic, Civil Disobedience (1972).
-- Hannah Arendt, (Oct 14 1906-1975), German-US political scientist; She is best known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.


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