Arendt, Hannah

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

"Nobody has the right to obey."

"Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the intermediary of things, is the one activity from which men are freed by no automation."

"The human condition is not exhausted by existentiality."

"Evil wills to leave no traces."

"We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing it to explicit doctrine."

"The only thing that reliably indicates what the rulers actually think is how they act."

"Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history."

"Conscience and common sense coincide only in the rare individual."

"The human animal, when not in a group, is often lost and confused."

"To live together in the world means essentially that a multiplicity of perspectives and stands in the world must learn not only to tolerate but to incorporate each other."

"Political action requires courage."

"The trouble with lying is that it requires tremendous creativity."

"We are not thinking beings that act, but acting beings that think."

"The event of proof is the same as the event of thought."

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."

"Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as any other person who ever lived, lives, or will live."

"Death is the only thing certain in life."

"The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies."

"Awareness of inexorable decline is not compatible with belief in progress."

"Imperialism is expansion without export."

"Authority requires an obedience in which men retain their freedom."

"Labor is the exertion of the body in reproduction of bodily necessities."

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means."

"The danger in the modern world is not mass society, but mass culture."

"If the Nazis could be satisfied by a simple reform, nobody would need to be afraid."

"True friendship is exceedingly rare."

"We cannot afford to live with truths we do not understand."

"Unexpected developments usually originate in the sphere of education."