In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. - Hannah Arendt 1 Share Now -
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. - Hannah Arendt 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. - Hannah Arendt 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. - Hannah Arendt 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
