“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)
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
― Hannah Arend (1906-1975)