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Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

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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.

Source: The Human Condition, pt. 3, ch. 16 (1958).
-- 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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