Hannah Arendt Quotes

Biography: Hannah Arendt was a renowned political theorist known for her works on... more Biography: Hannah Arendt was a renowned political theorist known for her works on the nature of power, authority, and totalitarianism. Born in 1906 in Germany, she escaped Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States. Arendt's notable works include "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "The Human Condition." Her keen insights continue to influence political thought and philosophy. less

"The trouble is that we are not only living in a world of constant change but in a world with four world wars—constant crisis and havoc in various world areas.""The more cynical reason people give in to totalitarianism is that they can't stand the boredom of total liberty.""The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.""The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.""Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.""In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.""Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.""Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself.""The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen.""The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself.""The essence of human rights is the right to have rights.""Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.""The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.""Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert.""The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.""There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.""The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.""The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

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