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Hannah Arendt quotesAction without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless. Hannah Arendt

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Hannah Arendt

It is far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than to think. Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt

No civilization … would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other. Hannah Arendt

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Hannah Arendt

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Hannah Arendt

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. 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

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution. Hannah Arendt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt

The fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil. Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 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

Hannah Arendt Quotes

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Hannah Arendt

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. Hannah Arendt

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know. 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

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. Hannah Arendt

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