Quote of Hannah Arendt - The law of progress holds that...
Biography - Hannah Arendt:
German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.
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