My apologies, but I'm going to play this game until I get bored (Doesn't Arendt look downright pretty in that hat?).
"Action alone is the exclusive prerogative of man; neither a beast nor a god is capable of it, and only action is entirely dependent upon the constant presence of others.
"This special relationship between action and being together seem to justify the early translation of Aristotle's zoon politikon by animal socialis ('man is by nature political, that is, social')."
--Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
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