if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch… — 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
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
The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — 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
![“If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/419/hannah-arendt-610_conditions_if-this-practice-of-totalitarianism-is-c_799785.jpg)
