Quotes by : Hannah Arendt

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In....

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

Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation....

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth....

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable....

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in....

Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not....

A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror....

There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the victim....