Hannah Arendt

We all carry fault within.

— Hannah Arendt

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

— Hannah Arendt

Thought and action must never part company.

— Hannah Arendt

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

— Hannah Arendt

Violence is an expression of impotence.

— Hannah Arendt

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

— Hannah Arendt

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

— Hannah Arendt

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

— Hannah Arendt

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

— Hannah Arendt

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

— Hannah Arendt

“The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.”

— Hannah Arendt

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

— Hannah Arendt

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

— Hannah Arendt

“Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.”

— Hannah Arendt

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

— Hannah Arendt

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

— Hannah Arendt

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

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

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

And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and…

— Hannah Arendt

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and…

— Hannah Arendt

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between…

— Hannah Arendt

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he…

— Hannah Arendt

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists,…

— Hannah Arendt

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I…

— Hannah Arendt

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is…

— Hannah Arendt

“When, a year later, the Madagascar project was declared to have become “obsolete,” everybody was psychologically, or rather, logically, prepared for the…

— Hannah Arendt

By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to…

— Hannah Arendt

“Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality,…

— Hannah Arendt

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of…

— Hannah Arendt

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to…

— Hannah Arendt

“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind…

— Hannah Arendt

“Labor and work, as well as action, are also rooted in natality in so far as they have the task to provide…

— Hannah Arendt

When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have…

— Hannah Arendt

If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;…

— Hannah Arendt

“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each…

— Hannah Arendt

The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything…

— Hannah Arendt

“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we…

— Hannah Arendt

... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and…

— Hannah Arendt