--- title: "16 1967 Quotes By Hannah Arendt" description: "16 1967 quotes by Hannah Arendt. Plus more from Hannah Arendt and more 1967 sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg" --- > [“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power-could-bring-about-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg) > [“It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-was-not-however-to-these-fascist-groups-numerically-unimportant-as/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/hannah-arendt-610_1967_it-was-not-however-to-these-fascist-grou_2676033.jpg) > [“A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly after the November pogroms of 1918 stated:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/a-circular-letter-from-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-to-all-german/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3b/hannah-arendt-610_1918_a-circular-letter-from-the-ministry-of-f_1788036.jpg) > [“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-simply-antisemitic-or-racist-or/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8af/hannah-arendt-610_1967_totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-sim_114895.jpg) > [“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-philosophy-of-hobbes-it-is-true-contains-nothing-of-modern-race/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-philosophy-of-hobbes-it-is-true-cont_2835248.jpg) > [“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/slavery-s-fundamental-offense-against-human-rights-was-not-that-it/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b6/hannah-arendt-610_1967_slavery-s-fundamental-offense-against-hu_1017746.jpg) > [“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. It is now often conveniently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-system-occurred-in-a-spectacular/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/hannah-arendt-610_1934_the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-syst_3092309.jpg) > [“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born-adventurers-of-those-who-by/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/hannah-arendt-610_1967_somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born_1692115.jpg) > [“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the-nazi-movement-in-germany-and/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/hannah-arendt-610_1967_it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the_2809184.jpg) > [“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-succeed-in-organizing-masses/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-su_2705115.jpg) > [“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-success-because-it-provided-on/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/hannah-arendt-610_1967_darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-suc_575299.jpg) > [“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at-the-end-of-the-eighteenth/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at_2926645.jpg) > [“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantages-for-the-domination-of-far/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/hannah-arendt-610_1967_rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantage_491042.jpg) > [“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-proved-to-be-a-failure-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/hannah-arendt-610_1967_naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-pr_639482.jpg) > [“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately-provided-for-the-same-groups/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/hannah-arendt-610_1938_that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately_447346.jpg) > [“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has-in-effect-assumed-the-role/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/hannah-arendt-610_1967_this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has_336344.jpg) ## Other authors on 1967 ## More by Hannah Arendt > [“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-means-first-that-everything-that-appears-in-public-can-be-seen-and/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/without-being-forgiven-released-from-the-consequences-of-what-we-have/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/what-really-distinguishes-this-generation-in-all-countries-from/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-practice-of-violence-like-all-action-changes-the-world-but-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/nationalism-always-preserved-this-initial-intimate-loyalty-to-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/there-is-all-the-difference-in-the-world-between-the-criminal-s/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/what-imperialists-actually-wanted-was-expansion-of-political-power/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-greater-the-bureaucratization-of-public-life-the-greater-will-be/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/forgiveness-is-the-key-to-action-and-freedom/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/death-not-merely-ends-life-it-also-bestows-upon-it-a-silent/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/only-crime-and-the-criminal-it-is-true-confront-us-with-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/we-have-almost-succeeded-in-leveling-all-human-activities-to-the/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/totalitarian-politics-far-from-being-simply-antisemitic-or-racist-or/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind of activity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-is-like-the-distinction-between-war-and-peace-just-as-war-takes/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) > [Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/every-end-in-history-necessarily-contains-a-new-beginning/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1967/hannah-arendt/#itemlist", "name": "16 1967 Quotes By Hannah Arendt", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power-could-bring-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. 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It is now often conveniently forgotten that at the moment of the outbreak of the second World War, the majority of European countries has already adopted some form of dictatorship and discarded the party system, and that this revolutionary change in government has been effected in most countries without revolutionary upheaval. Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power. After all, it did not make much difference if a few thousand almost unarmed people staged a march on Rome and took over the government of Italy, or whether in Poland (in 1934) a so-called \"partyless bloc,\" with a program of support for a semifascist government and a membership drawn from the nobility and the poorest peasantry, workers and businessmen, Catholics and orthodox Jews, legally won two-thirds of the seats in Parliament.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-system-occurred-in-a-spectacular/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/hannah-arendt-610_1934_the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-syst_3092309.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/hannah-arendt-610_1934_the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-syst_3092309.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e46/hannah-arendt-610_1934_the-breakdown-of-the-european-party-syst_3092309.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. 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But this triumph of the profit-hungry investors was temporary, and they were duly cheated when a few decades later they met the player of the game of totalitarianism, a game played without ulterior motives like profit and therefore played with such murderous efficiency that it devoured even those who financed it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born-adventurers-of-those-who-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/hannah-arendt-610_1967_somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born_1692115.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/hannah-arendt-610_1967_somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born_1692115.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/349/hannah-arendt-610_1967_somehow-it-was-not-the-fault-of-the-born_1692115.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been \"spoiled\" by the party system. Therefore they did not need to refute opposing arguments and consistently preferred methods which ended in death rather than persuasion, which spelled terror rather than conviction. They presented disagreements as invariably originating in deep natural, social, or psychological sources beyond the control of the individual and therefore beyond the power of reason. This would have been a shortcoming only if they had sincerely entered into competition with other parties; it was not if they were sure of dealing with people who had reason to be equally hostile to all parties.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the-nazi-movement-in-germany-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/hannah-arendt-610_1967_it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the_2809184.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/hannah-arendt-610_1967_it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the_2809184.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/hannah-arendt-610_1967_it-was-characteristic-of-the-rise-of-the_2809184.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with opinions about, and interests in, the handling of public affairs, like the parties of Anglo-Saxon countries. While all political groups depend upon proportionate strength, the totalitarian movements depend on the sheer force of numbers to such an extent that totalitarian regimes seem impossible, even under otherwise favorable circumstances, in countries with relatively small populations. After the first World War, a deeply antidemocratic, prodictatorial wave of semitotalitarian and totalitarian movements swept Europe; Fascist movements spread from Italy to nearly all Central and Eastern European countries (the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was one of the notable exceptions); yet even Mussolini , who was so fond of the term \"totalitarian state,\" did not attempt to establish a full-fledged totalitarian regime and contented himself with dictatorship and one-party rule. Similar nontotalitarian dictatorships sprang up in prewar Rumania, Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, Portugal and Franco Spain. The Nazis, who had an unfailing instinct for such differences, used to comment contemptuously on the shortcomings of their Fascist allies while their genuine admiration for the Bolshevik regime in Russia (and the Communist Party in Germany) was matched and checked only by their contempt for Eastern European races.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-succeed-in-organizing-masses/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-su_2705115.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-su_2705115.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-totalitarian-movements-aim-at-and-su_2705115.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as class rule and could be used for, as well as against, race discrimination. Politically speaking, Darwinism as such was neutral, and it has led, indeed, to all kinds of pacifism and cosmopolitanism as well as to the sharpest forms of imperialistic ideologies. In the seventies and eighties of the last century, Darwinism was still almost exclusively in the hands of the utilitarian anti-colonial party in England. And the first philosopher of evolution, Herbert Spencer , who treated sociology as part of biology, believed natural selection to benefit the evolution of mankind and to result in everlasting peace. For political discussion, Darwinism offered two important concepts: the struggle for existence with optimistic assertion of the necessary and automatic \"survival of the fittest,\" and the indefinite possibilities which seemed to lie in the evolution of man out of animal life and which started the new \"science\" of eugenics.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-success-because-it-provided-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/hannah-arendt-610_1967_darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-suc_575299.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/hannah-arendt-610_1967_darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-suc_575299.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/hannah-arendt-610_1967_darwinism-met-with-such-overwhelming-suc_575299.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God's command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law. Independent of the privileges which history had bestowed upon certain strata of society or certain nations, the declaration indicated man's emancipation from all tutelage and announced that he had now come of age. Beyond this, there was another implication of which the framers of the declaration were only half aware. The proclamation of human rights was also meant to be a much-needed protection in the new era where individuals were no longer secure in the estates to which they were born or sure of their equality before God as Christians. In other words, in the new secularized and emancipated society, men were no longer sure of these social and human rights which until then had been outside the political order and guaranteed not by government and constitution, but by social, spiritual, and religious forces. Therefore throughout the nineteenth century, the consensus of opinion was that human rights had to be invoked whenever individuals needed protection against the new sovereignty of the state and the new arbitrariness of society.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at-the-end-of-the-eighteenth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at_2926645.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at_2926645.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/hannah-arendt-610_1967_the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-at_2926645.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous populations and for a policy of oppression. Its efficiency is superior simply because it ignores all intermediary stages between issuance and application, and because it prevents political reasoning by the people through the withholding of information. It can easily overcome the variety of local customs and need not rely on the necessarily slow process of development of general law. It is most helpful for the establishment of a centralized administration because it overrides automatically all matters of local autonomy. If rule by good laws has sometimes been called the rule of wisdom, rule by appropriate decrees may rightly be called the rule of cleverness. For it is clever to reckon with ulterior motives and aims, and it is wise to understand and create by deduction from generally accepted principles. Government by bureaucracy has to be distinguished from the mere outgrowth and deformation of civil services which frequently accompanied the decline of the nation-state—as, notably, in France. There the administration has survived all changes in regime since the Revolution, entrenched itself like a parasite in the body politic, developed its own class interests, and become a useless organism whose only purpose appears to be chicanery and prevention of normal economic and political development. There are of course many superficial similarities between the two types of bureaucracy, especially if one pays too much attention to the striking psychological similarity of petty officials. But if the French people have made the very serious mistake of accepting their administration as a necessary evil, they have never committed the fatal error of allowing it to rule the country—even though the consequence has been that nobody rules it. The French atmosphere of government has become one of inefficiency and vexation; but it has not created and aura of pseudomysticism. And it is this pseudomysticism that is the stamp of bureaucracy when it becomes a form of government. Since the people it dominates never really know why something is happening, and a rational interpretation of laws does not exist, there remains only one thing that counts, the brutal naked event itself. What happens to one then becomes subject to an interpretation whose possibilities are endless, unlimited by reason and unhampered by knowledge. Within the framework of such endless interpretive speculation, so characteristic of all branches of Russian pre-revolutionary literature, the whole texture of life and world assume a mysterious secrecy and depth. There is a dangerous charm in this aura because of its seemingly inexhaustible richness; interpretation of suffering has a much larger range than that of action for the former goes on in the inwardness of the soul and releases all the possibilities of human imagination, whereas the latter is consistently checked, and possibly led into absurdity, by outward consequence and controllable experience.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantages-for-the-domination-of-far/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/hannah-arendt-610_1967_rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantage_491042.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/hannah-arendt-610_1967_rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantage_491042.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/hannah-arendt-610_1967_rule-by-decree-has-conspicuous-advantage_491042.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogeneous…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it was confronted with stateless people, and this for the same reasons that the right of asylum had been set aside. Essentially naturalization was an appendage to the nation-state's legislation that reckoned only with \"nationals,\" people born in its territory and citizens by birth. Naturalization was needed in exceptional cases, for single individuals whom circumstances might have driven into a foreign territory. The whole process broke down when it became a question of handling mass applications for naturalization: even from the purely administrative point of view, no European civil service could possibly have dealt with the problem. Instead of naturalizing at least a small portion of the new arrivals, the countries began to cancel earlier naturalizations, partly because of general panic and partly because the arrival of great masses of newcomers actually changed the always precarious position of naturalized citizens of the same origin. Cancellation of naturalization or the introduction of new laws which obviously paved the way for mass denaturalization shattered what little confidence the refugees might have retained in the possibility of adjusting themselves to a new normal life; if assimilation to the new country once looked a little shabby or disloyal, it was now simply ridiculous. The difference between a naturalized citizen and a stateless resident was not great enough to justify taking any trouble, the former being frequently deprived of important civil rights and threatened at any moment with the fate of the latter. Naturalized persons were largely assimilated to the status of ordinary aliens, and since the naturalized had already lost their previous citizenship, these measures simply threatened another considerable group with statelessness.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-proved-to-be-a-failure-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/hannah-arendt-610_1967_naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-pr_639482.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/hannah-arendt-610_1967_naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-pr_639482.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/hannah-arendt-610_1967_naturalization-on-the-other-hand-also-pr_639482.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their inmates, was all the more characteristic as the selection of the groups was left exclusively to the initiative of the totalitarian regimes: if the Nazis put a person in a concentration camp and if he made a successful escape, say, to Holland, the Dutch would put him in an internment camp. Thus, long before the outbreak of the war the police in a number of Western countries, under the pretext of \"national security,\" had on their own initiative established close connections with the Gestapo and the GPU [Russian State security agency], so that one might say there existed an independent foreign policy of the police. This police-directed foreign policy functioned quite independently of the official governments; the relations between the Gestapo and the French police were never more cordial than at the time of Leon Blum's popular-front government, which was guided by a decidedly anti-German policy. Contrary to the governments, the various police organizations were never overburdened with \"prejudices\" against any totalitarian regime; the information and denunciations received from GPU agents were just as welcome to them as those from Fascist or Gestapo agents. They knew about the eminent role of the police apparatus in all totalitarian regimes, they knew about its elevated social status and political importance, and they never bothered to conceal their sympathies. That the Nazis eventually met with so disgracefully little resistance from the police in the countries they occupied, and that they were able to organize terror as much as they did with the assistance of these local police forces, was due at least in part to the powerful position which the police had achieved over the years in their unrestricted and arbitrary domination of stateless and refugees.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately-provided-for-the-same-groups/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/hannah-arendt-610_1938_that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately_447346.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/hannah-arendt-610_1938_that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately_447346.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/521/hannah-arendt-610_1938_that-concentration-camps-were-ultimately_447346.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This new situation, in which \"humanity\" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this context that the right to have rights, or the right of every individual to belong to humanity, should be guaranteed by humanity itself. It is by no means certain whether this is possible. For, contrary to the best-intentioned humanitarian attempts to obtain new declarations of human rights from international organizations, it should be understood that this idea transcends the present sphere of international law which still operates in terms of reciprocal agreements and treaties between sovereign states; and, for the time being, a sphere that is above the nation does not exist. Furthermore, this dilemma would by no means be eliminated by the establishment of a \"world government.\" Such a world government is indeed within the realm of possibility, but one may suspect that in reality it might differ considerably from the version promoted by idealistic-minded organizations. The crimes against human rights, which have become a specialty of totalitarian regimes, can always be justified by the pretext that right is equivalent to being good or useful for the whole in distinction to its parts. ( Hitler's motto that \"Right is what is good for the German people\" is only the vulgarized form of a conception of law which can be found everywhere and which in practice will remain effectual only so long as older traditions that are still effective in the constitutions prevent this.) A conception of law which identifies what is right with the notion of what is good for—for the individual, or the family, or the people, or the largest number—becomes inevitable once the absolute and transcendent measurements of religion or the law of nature have lost their authority. And this predicament is by no means solved if the unit to which the \"good for\" applies is as large as mankind itself. For it is quite conceivable, and even within the realm of practical political possibilities, that one fine day a highly organized and mechanized humanity will conclude quite democratically—namely by majority decision—that for humanity as a whole it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has-in-effect-assumed-the-role/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/hannah-arendt-610_1967_this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has_336344.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/hannah-arendt-610_1967_this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has_336344.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72d/hannah-arendt-610_1967_this-new-situation-in-which-humanity-has_336344.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This new situation, in which \"humanity\" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1967/hannah-arendt/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1967/hannah-arendt/", "name": "1967 Quotes by Hannah Arendt", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1967/hannah-arendt/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/hannah-arendt-610_1967_only-the-unlimited-accumulation-of-power_698710.jpg" }, "description": "16 1967 quotes by Hannah Arendt. 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