Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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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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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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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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Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of 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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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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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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