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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

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

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

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

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt

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

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