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
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — 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
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — 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
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my… — 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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