Quotes by : Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history....

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the....

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility: he can never admit an error.....The....

there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people....

Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so....

You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed....

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which....

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.....