Om politikens gränser

"Before men began to act, a definite space had to be secured and a structure built where all subsequent actions could take place, the space being the public realm of the polis and its structure the law … But these tangible entities themselves were not the content of politics.

- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd edn (Chicago, IL: University of Chicagi Press, 1958), pp 194-5

En gång fanns varken det religiösa eller det sekulära ...