Arendt, Hannah

"Authentic existence is existence in plurality."

"The greatest danger is not failure but moral indifference."

"We inherit the past but are not bound by it."

"The world is continuously created through human action."

"Hope lies not in probability but in possibility."

"The capacity for renewal is the basis of human freedom."

"Solitude is necessary for thinking, but action requires plurality."

"The meaning of life emerges through our relationships with others."

"Authority rests on the recognition of legitimacy by the governed."

"Action without responsibility leads to barbarism."

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

"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."

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

"Nobody has the right to obey."

"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are rather basic modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt."

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

"Action is the only human faculty that does not require things or material, and it is the same with natality, with man's ability to begin something new."

"The danger in all bureaucracy is its potential for dehumanizing those it serves."

"Men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and unable to punish what they cannot kill."

"Understanding means that sort of comprehension which is more than mere knowledge."

"The most important thing to remember is that our freedom is inextricably linked with the freedom of others."

"Only the Christian knew that the greatest dangers to human freedom come from the abuse of power by those in authority."

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within."

"The polis was supposed to multiply the occasions to win 'immortal fame' for oneself."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"The capacity to forgive is the most powerful force in human relationships."

"One cannot be happy alone; one needs company to be joyful and festive."

"The greatest threat to democracy is voter apathy."

"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 anybody else who ever lived, lives, or will live."

"Evil is the absence of thought."