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
Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not… — 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
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
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
Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less… — 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
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
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
“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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