"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
― Hannah Arendt
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"And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new."
― Hannah Arendt |
"Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning."
― Hannah Arendt |
"The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true."
― Hannah Arendt |
"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
― Hannah Arendt |
"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."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself."
― Hannah Arendt
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"But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant."
― Hannah Arendt
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"The third world is not a reality, but an ideology."
― Hannah Arendt
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"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."
― Hannah Arendt |
"As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake."
― Hannah Arendti |
"When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
― Hannah Arendt |
"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous."
― Hannah Arendt
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"If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant."
― Hannah Arendt |
"There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such."
― Hannah Arendt
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The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
― Hannah Arendt
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."
― Hannah Arendt |
"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
― Hannah Arendt |
"The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons."
― Hannah Arendt |
"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it the quality of temptation."
― Hannah Arendt |
"It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil."
― Hannah Arendt
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"For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst."
― Hannah Arendt
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"Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire."
― Hannah Arendt
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"The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations."
― Hannah Arendt
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