Hannah Arendt

"Thinking is dangerous to those in power."

"We are dying from civilization itself rather than from any conquest."

"The public realm is where freedom appears."

"Propaganda works on the masses, persuasion on individuals."

"The capacity to feel the past is what distinguishes humans from animals."

"In a world of abundance, happiness is not about having more but about being more."

"The origin of all politics is friendship among free people."

"We live in a world where the unprecedented constantly occurs."

"Patience is not about waiting; it is about how we wait."

"Memory is the birthplace of understanding."

"The tragedy of the modern age is that we have machines but lack wisdom to use them."

"Beauty in the world is the reflection of truth in the mind."

"The permanence of the world transcends the life span of individual men."

"We create meaning through our stories, not through abstract doctrine."

"The human face is the first symbol of the Other."

"Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, but legitimacy grows out of consent."

"The personal is not political; politics belongs to the public realm."

"Dreams become nightmares when they are institutionalized."

"History offers no guarantees for the future."

"The greatest gift of freedom is the burden of choice."

"Humility is not weakness but the recognition of human finitude."

"The past haunts us not because we cannot escape it but because we do not understand it."

"True peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice."

"Money is the only language that capitalism understands."

"The condition of man is that condition which characterizes human existence as distinct from animal life."

"We are responsible not only for what we do but for what we fail to do."

"Gratitude is the hidden motion of all good action."

"The public and private realms are not equal; one is not the translation of the other."

"Fear destroys freedom more effectively than any dictator."

"Birth is the political event par excellence."