Hannah Arendt

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

— Hannah Arendt

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

— Hannah Arendt

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

— Hannah Arendt

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

— Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

— Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

— Hannah Arendt

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

— Hannah Arendt

We all carry fault within.

— Hannah Arendt

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

— Hannah Arendt

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

— Hannah Arendt

Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

— Hannah Arendt

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

— Hannah Arendt

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

— Hannah Arendt

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

— Hannah Arendt

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

— Hannah Arendt

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

— 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 conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

“[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of…

— Hannah Arendt

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal…

— Hannah Arendt

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake…

— Hannah Arendt

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

— Hannah Arendt

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to…

— Hannah Arendt

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows…

— Hannah Arendt

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single…

— Hannah Arendt

Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),…

— Hannah Arendt

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is…

— Hannah Arendt

“For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence…

— Hannah Arendt

“Only a man who does not survive his one supreme act remains the indisputable master of his identity and possible greatness because…

— Hannah Arendt

A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility,…

— Hannah Arendt

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning…

— Hannah Arendt

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There…

— Hannah Arendt

“The Party program was never taken seriously by Nazi officials; they prided themselves on belonging to a movement, as distinguished from a…

— Hannah Arendt

“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as…

— Hannah Arendt

“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.…

— Hannah Arendt

“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant…

— Hannah Arendt

“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them…

— Hannah Arendt

“Less well known but perhaps even more convincing is that Khrushchev’s own and most ambitious attempt at reversing the process of detotalitarization…

— Hannah Arendt

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other…

— Hannah Arendt