Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about…

“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but in their…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Hannah Arendt

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited…

— Hannah Arendt

“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with opinions about,…

— Hannah Arendt

“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside all political…

— Hannah Arendt

“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it was confronted…

— Hannah Arendt

“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is…

— Hannah Arendt

“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their…

— Hannah Arendt

“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this context that…

— Hannah Arendt

“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more…

— Hannah Arendt

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded…

— Hannah Arendt

“A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly after the November pogroms of 1918 stated: "The emigration…

— Hannah Arendt

“It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the contrary, the…

— Hannah Arendt