Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not. — 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
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an… — 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
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
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
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all'… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“the world and the people who inhabit it are not the same. The world lies between people, and this in-between – much… — 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
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — 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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