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
“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In his] mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from… — 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
“Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. It is now often conveniently… — 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
![“In his] mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war, and "I shall gladly hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth," which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f7/hannah-arendt-610_laughter_in-his-mind-there-was-no-contradiction-b_763645.jpg)
![“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof of the existence of such a common interest. The enlightened despotism was based on [Duc de] Rohan's "kings command the peoples and interest commands the king"; with the abolition…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/230/hannah-arendt-610_1968_the-absolute-monarch-was-supposed-to-ser_1887875.jpg)
