Quotes Hannah Arendt

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition....

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has be...

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative th...

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of stat...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true....

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never ...

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology....

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficienc...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in t...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerou...

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing f...

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the w...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of a...

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to ...

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford....

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective g...

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the fu...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the er...