Status Updates From La condición humana

„…even the greatest forces of intimate life — the passions of the heart, the thoughts of the mind, the delights of the senses — lead an uncertain, shadowy kind of existence unless and until they are transformed, deprivatised and deindividuslised, as it were, into a shape to fit them for public appearance“ p. 50

"Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required, and this presence needs the formality of the public, constitued by one‘s peers, it cannot be the casual, familiar presence of one‘s equals or inferiors"

"To be free meant both not to ge subject to the necessity of life or to the command of another AND not to be in command oneself. It meant neither to rule or to be ruled. (…) this equality of the political realm (…) meant to live among (…) peers, and it presupposed the existence of 'unequals' who (…) were always the majority of the population"