Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons” — 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
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — 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… — 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
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