No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
HANNAH ARENDTForgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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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 anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
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The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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