“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Hannah Arendt scorned this preoccupation with death and proposed a new symbolism that emphasized not the inevitability of our dying, but the… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
“To be free in the republican sense, people must have adequate resources enabling them to make reasonable choices, whatever the preferences and… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart’s… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: “Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” —Hannah Arendt I” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear. When I really want to hear another… — Valarie Kaur Copy Share Image
“Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“We humans almost universally have a false self-image of our species. We think that monstrous, wicked policies must be, can only be,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was… — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
“For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the traditional revolutionary demand for council forms of organization (what Hannah Arendt describes as "the revolutionary heritage") does not break… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt” — R.L. Adams Copy Share Image
“I edited that [men's adventure] stuff, I read it all. I went from that to The Saturday Evening Post. The very first… — Mel Shestack Copy Share Image
Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
