Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among… — 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
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded… — 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
