Arendt, Hannah

"Evil becomes banal when it ceases to be exceptional."

"Tradition breaks when we refuse to transmit it."

"The ability to think critically is the first defense against tyranny."

"We are creatures of action before we are creatures of reason."

"The past has authority over us only insofar as we grant it."

"Judgment requires imagination and particularity."

"Democracy requires that citizens think for themselves."

"The meaning of action is revealed in the web of relationships."

"Freedom emerges in the space between persons."

"To lose the capacity for wonder is to lose humanity itself."

"The future is always uncertain because action is always unpredictable."

"Language is the medium through which we disclose ourselves."

"Political life begins when we acknowledge our interdependence."

"The banality of evil is not the absence of evil but its ordinariness."

"We cannot escape history, but we can act within it."

"Freedom is not the absence of constraint but the presence of alternatives."

"The essence of totalitarianism is the elimination of the space between persons."

"Thinking is the most human of all activities."

"The crisis of our time is not economic but spiritual."

"Action requires courage because its outcome is always uncertain."

"We become human through interaction with others."

"The power to act is the power to begin something new."

"Revolution is the natality of political space."

"The preservation of freedom requires constant vigilance."

"Miracles happen when we act together in concert."

"The world becomes meaningful through our engagement with it."

"Justice requires the capacity to imagine the perspective of others."

"History is the record of human action and speech."

"Understanding requires narrative, not analysis alone."

"The public realm is where we become visible to one another."