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Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.
— Hannah Arendt
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
— 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 point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
— Hannah Arendt
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
— Hannah Arendt
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
— Hannah Arendt
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
— Hannah Arendt
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.
— 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
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
— Hannah Arendt
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
— Hannah Arendt
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
— Hannah Arendt
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
— Hannah Arendt
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
— Hannah Arendt
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
— Hannah Arendt
Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
— Hannah Arendt
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
— Hannah Arendt
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
— Hannah Arendt
The space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
— Hannah Arendt
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be.
— Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
— Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
— Hannah Arendt
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
— Hannah Arendt
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
— Hannah Arendt
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
— Hannah Arendt
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
— Hannah Arendt
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
— Hannah Arendt
...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
— Hannah Arendt
Men in plural [ ... ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
— Hannah Arendt
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
— Hannah Arendt
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin ... to set something into motion.
— Hannah Arendt
It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
— Hannah Arendt
Thought and action must never part company.
— Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
— Hannah Arendt
Where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
— Hannah Arendt
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
— Hannah Arendt
Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states.
— Hannah Arendt
there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
— Hannah Arendt
The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
— Hannah Arendt
Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
— Hannah Arendt
They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.
— Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
— Hannah Arendt
Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning ...
— 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
The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
— Hannah Arendt
[The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.
— Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
— Hannah Arendt
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
— Hannah Arendt
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
— Hannah Arendt
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,
— Hannah Arendt
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
— Hannah Arendt
Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
— Hannah Arendt
Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
— Hannah Arendt
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
We all carry fault within.
— Hannah Arendt
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
— Hannah Arendt
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
— Hannah Arendt
Every thought is an afterthought.
— Hannah Arendt
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
— Hannah Arendt
One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all.
— Hannah Arendt
To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
— Hannah Arendt
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
The greatest revolutionary innovation, Madison's discovery of the federal principle for the foundation of large republics,
— Hannah Arendt
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
— Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
— Hannah Arendt
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
— Hannah Arendt
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
— Hannah Arendt
Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century.
— Heda Margolius Kovaly