Hannah Arendt

"Language is not merely a means of communication; it is a mode of life."

"Reality and experience have begun to diverge increasingly."

"The human condition is that condition which characterizes human existence."

"Identity requires a fixed point from which the subject can look out."

"Superficiality is the law of the integrated spectacle."

"The refugee is a symptom of the loss of faith in the nation-state."

"We cannot undo our deeds, but we can forgive and be forgiven."

"The defying of gravity is the only miracle permissible to political thought."

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story."

"Freedom is no longer a political concept in the modern world."

"The ability to distinguish between good and evil is the price of entrance into human history."

"Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in bureaucracy."

"The world is not humane just because it is created by human beings."

"Labor creates the body, work creates the world, action creates history."

"Common sense is the political instinct of free peoples."

"To lose a child is to lose an entire world."

"The human world is constituted by the human capacity to achieve the immortal."

"Our duty is to the past as well as to the future."

"Forgiveness can never be predicted; it is always a surprise."

"The curse of bureaucracy is that it replaces personal responsibility with collective irresponsibility."

"Imperialism is the political outfit of the bourgeoisie."

"Plurality is the condition of all political life."

"The strength of totalitarian propaganda lies not in its philosophical profundity but in its monolithic unity."

"We cannot live without myths but we must live critically with them."

"The danger in the modern world is that the means become the end."

"Mankind has always needed myths but myths should never be mistaken for truth."

"To love life is to love the unexpected."

"The paradox of revolution is that freedom begets tyranny."

"Art is the only response to the totality of existence that is not dogmatic."

"The most dangerous form of power is the power of the mob."