Hannah Arendt

“For, obviously, things were not as simple as the framers of laws had imagined them to be, and if it was of…

— Hannah Arendt

“Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded…

— Hannah Arendt

It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth…

— Hannah Arendt

To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.

— Hannah Arendt

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

— Hannah Arendt

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a…

— Hannah Arendt

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom…

— Hannah Arendt

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and…

— Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

— Hannah Arendt

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— Hannah Arendt

“To leave the household, originally in order to embark upon some adventure and glorious enterprise and later simply to devote one’s life…

— Hannah Arendt

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

— Hannah Arendt

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the…

— Hannah Arendt

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil…

— Hannah Arendt

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

— Hannah Arendt

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of…

— Hannah Arendt

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

— Hannah Arendt

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we…

— Hannah Arendt

“For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence…

— Hannah Arendt

“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside…

— Hannah Arendt

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their…

— Hannah Arendt

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

— Hannah Arendt

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but…

— Hannah Arendt

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic…

— Hannah Arendt

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had…

— Hannah Arendt