Arendt, Hannah

"The loss of the past is the loss of identity and meaning."

"Greatness is possible only in the political realm, among others."

"The human being is the creature who can question its own being."

"Society is the enemy of true action and true human excellence."

"The right to have rights requires membership in a political community."

"To understand is to be implicated; there is no innocent knowledge."

"The modern world has created new forms of totalitarianism without recognizing them."

"Judgment is the capacity to think about particulars without subordinating them to rules."

"The public realm is where human dignity is possible."

"Tradition gives us the words to speak; without it we are speechless."

"The human condition is the condition of being perpetually surprised by others."

"Power is not the possession of the individual but emerges in the space between people."

"The task of thinking is to resist the reduction of human beings to mere objects."

"Authenticity is impossible in a world of mass production and standardization."

"The loss of common sense is the beginning of totalitarianism."

"Human dignity requires the possibility of action and speech."