Hannah Arendt Quotes

Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend in public opinion everywhere.

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

There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.

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

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.

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

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.