“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
“The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning”
― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)