Arendt, Hannah

"The purpose of revolution is not to create a permanent revolutionary situation."

"Reality and experience are frequently quite opposed."

"The most efficient system of control is the one that makes its subjects believe they are free."

"In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

"Politics is not a science but an art."

"The crisis of the modern world is a crisis of understanding."

"We are hopelessly absent-minded."

"History does not repeat itself, historians repeat each other."

"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far more important to act than to think."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Each generation must discover its mission."

"Love is the only way of knowing another human being in his otherness."

"Without a common world, people are isolated and lonely."

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

"Promise and forgiveness are the only ways to undo what was done."

"Totalitarian rule seeks not to make men free, but to make them superfluous."

"The capacity to forgive is the ability to overcome injustice."

"We discover meaning when we are forced to act."

"Freedom is conditioned by the existence of a plurality of perspectives."

"Power corrupts not because it gives men the opportunity to do evil, but because it constrains them to do so."

"Every end in history immediately begets a new beginning."

"The fear of standing alone prevents most people from seeking the truth."

"In a bureaucracy, one cannot see the person responsible."

"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition."

"The crisis of authority is the crisis of the past."

"Only the actors know what they are doing."

"Common sense is not so common."

"Understanding grows in concentric circles."

"What distinguishes freedom from mere arbitrariness is the capacity for judgment."

"The modern world has turned everything into a consumer product."