Hannah Arendt Quotes

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

Truth, Liar, Trouble

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt

Good, Truth, Sad

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

Peace, Good, Happy

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

True, Evil, Hypocrite

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness, Freedom, Action

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt

Life, Death, Human

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt

Death, Living, Try

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

Revolution, After, Become

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

Thinking, Thoughts, Dangerous

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

Power, Violence, Left

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

Won, Propaganda, Momentum

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Hannah Arendt

Good, Freedom, May

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

Meaning, Error, Defining

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt

Nothing, Country, Quite

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt

Mind, Loyalty, Possible

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hannah Arendt

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Hannah Arendt

Good, Few, Horse

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

Politics, History, Freedom

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt

Love, Experience, Mistake

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt

Power, Lying, Street

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt

Revolution, Become, Matter

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt

Best, Expect, Worst

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt

Far, Act, Tyranny

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt

Beauty, Nature, Beautiful

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt

Happiness, Men, End

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: October 14, 1906

Died: December 4, 1975

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