For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
HANNAH ARENDTRevolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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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.
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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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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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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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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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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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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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.
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It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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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.
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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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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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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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