59 Quotations by Hannah Arendt
- 41. The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the mor ...
- 42. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- 43. The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, whic ...
- 44. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- 45. The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
- 46. The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither p ...
- 47. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o ...
- 48. There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civi ...
- 49. To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou ...
- 50. To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforce ...
- 51. Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes ...
- 52. Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machiner ...
- 53. Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
- 54. War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
- 55. We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the ...
- 56. What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ ...
- 57. What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fa ...
- 58. When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this m ...
- 59. Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is ...
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