--- title: "4 Antisemitism Quotes By Hannah Arendt" description: "4 Antisemitism quotes by Hannah Arendt. Plus more from Hannah Arendt and more Antisemitism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg" --- > [“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-simply-antisemitic-or-racist-or/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg) > [“As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable "vice" of Jewishness was dangerous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/as-far-as-the-jews-were-concerned-the-transformation-of-the-crime-of/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c4/hannah-arendt-610_1968_as-far-as-the-jews-were-concerned-the-tr_685196.jpg) > [“A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly after the November pogroms of 1918 stated:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/a-circular-letter-from-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-to-all-german/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/hannah-arendt-610_1918_a-circular-letter-from-the-ministry-of-f_1788036.jpg) > [“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/equality-of-condition-though-it-is-certainly-a-basic-requirement-for/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e56/hannah-arendt-610_1968_equality-of-condition-though-it-is-certa_2928839.jpg) ## Other authors on Antisemitism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/christopher-hitchens/) - [Phyllis Goldstein 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/phyllis-goldstein/) ## More by Hannah Arendt > [“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-means-first-that-everything-that-appears-in-public-can-be-seen-and/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/without-being-forgiven-released-from-the-consequences-of-what-we-have/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/what-really-distinguishes-this-generation-in-all-countries-from/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-practice-of-violence-like-all-action-changes-the-world-but-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/nationalism-always-preserved-this-initial-intimate-loyalty-to-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/there-is-all-the-difference-in-the-world-between-the-criminal-s/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/what-imperialists-actually-wanted-was-expansion-of-political-power/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-greater-the-bureaucratization-of-public-life-the-greater-will-be/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/forgiveness-is-the-key-to-action-and-freedom/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/death-not-merely-ends-life-it-also-bestows-upon-it-a-silent/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/only-crime-and-the-criminal-it-is-true-confront-us-with-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/we-have-almost-succeeded-in-leveling-all-human-activities-to-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-simply-antisemitic-or-racist-or/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind of activity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-is-like-the-distinction-between-war-and-peace-just-as-war-takes/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/every-end-in-history-necessarily-contains-a-new-beginning/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antisemitism/hannah-arendt/#itemlist", "name": "4 Antisemitism Quotes By Hannah Arendt", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 factual reality, from which the ideologies originally derived their strength and their propaganda value—the reality of class struggle, for instance, or the interest conflicts between Jews and their neighbors—have all but disappeared.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-simply-antisemitic-or-racist-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the \"crime\" of Judaism into the fashionable \"vice\" of Jewishness was dangerous in the extreme. 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