Hannah Arendt

"The most despotic of all forms of tyranny is the tyranny of the majority."

"We cannot undo what has been done, but we can change what will be."

"Thinking is dangerous, which is why tyrants fear those who think."

"The life of human beings is something which continually renews itself out of its ashes."

"The phenomenal world is only what it is because the human mind has understood it as such."

"Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning."

"Political freedom means the right to participate in public affairs and public happiness means pleasure, dignity and honor."

"Labor is the way in which man produces what nature provides for him; work is man's effort to use these materials for his purposes."

"Man cannot live without hope and work."

"The public realm is the only place where man can achieve immortality."

"Imperialism was, in a sense, the ideal of the old Greek and Roman civilization."

"Ideologies are systems of thought by which the world is explained in terms of a single principle."

"All sorrows can be borne if you can tell a story about them."

"The capacity for action is the greatest human freedom."

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

"Understanding and forgiveness are the only ways toward the future."

"Man is born for action, thought is only a preparation for action."

"Organized loneliness is worse than isolated loneliness."

"A life without stories would be one without memories."

"Propaganda strives for the single point in the universe, the single truth."

"The purpose of the law is to express the wisdom and judgment of the people."

"Clandestinity and concealment are always signs of weakness."

"The social question is the question of how to house, feed, and clothe all members of society."

"Credibility is as important to politics as power is to war."

"Revolution is the only form of war and violence which can be justified historically and morally."

"Public happiness is the only issue in which the majority has a stake."

"The distinction between public and private is no longer respected in modern society."

"Love, as distinguished from friendship, is unconcerned with usefulness."

"Homo faber represents the human condition of worldliness."

"The life of the mind is not primarily thinking but imagining, willing, and judging."