Tools 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.
HANNAH ARENDTWhen an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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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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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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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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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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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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