• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.

Hannah Arendt

Related Topics

RoadSanity

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Hannah Arendt Quotes

• 

  Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  ExperienceManTalk
• 

  The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  LanguagePublic
• 

  The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  IdeasRealityWorld
• 

  A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers

  HANNAH ARENDT
  DevelopmentFailureLifeManQuiteThinking
• 

  It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  EvilHimselfLearningWord
• 

  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.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  EasyHandsLifeLoveTimeYourself
• 

  The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  AliveExistenceHistoryHumanManPerfection
• 

  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.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  AbsencePowerViolence
• 

  And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  HimselfPhilosophySuffering
• 

  Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  FreedomLibertyManNecessarySuccessWin
• 

  The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  AbsenceDeep
• 

  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.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  CrimePoliticsTrue
• 

  Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  CourageLifePolitics
• 

  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
  DesireGoodnessHappinessOurselves
• 

  Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  ForgivenessHistory
• 

  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.

  HANNAH ARENDT
  ArgumentAvoidControlPresent