Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image