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 ARENDTBut this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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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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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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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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The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
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To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
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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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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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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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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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