Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
HANNAH ARENDTTools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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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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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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