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.
HANNAH ARENDTFactuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
-
-
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
HANNAH ARENDT -
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
HANNAH ARENDT -
It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy, our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.
HANNAH ARENDT -
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
HANNAH ARENDT -
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.
HANNAH ARENDT -
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
HANNAH ARENDT -
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
HANNAH ARENDT -
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
HANNAH ARENDT -
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
HANNAH ARENDT -
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
HANNAH ARENDT