Story Quote by R.L. Adams

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

— Hannah Arendt

“Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The Language of the Third Reich by Victor Klemperer (1947); The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (1951); The Rebel by Albert Camus (1951);…

— Timothy Snyder

“Bureaucracy, as Hannah Arendt defined it: the rule of nobody. Roll”

— Joseph Heller

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” —Hannah Arendt I”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps…

— Victoria Finlay

“as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: “Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and…

— Brooke Gladstone

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not…

— Thomas Koerfer

“Blücher was wildly popular at Bard, earning commendations as a teacher and raises every year from 1952 until he taught his last class in…

— Anne Heller

“Arendt, as we have seen, is committed to understanding totalitarianism in its complete novelty, as an unprecedented phenomenon. It is unprecedented in the strict…

— Steve Buckler

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

— Barbara Sukowa

“When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate in the…

— Timothy Snyder