Hannah Arendt Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes…
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the…
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its…
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a…
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom…
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.