Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying ...
HANNAH ARENDT The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an er...
HANNAH ARENDT Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to th...
HANNAH ARENDT Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard aga...
HANNAH ARENDT Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only t...
HANNAH ARENDT By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to real...
HANNAH ARENDT In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
HANNAH ARENDT Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...
HANNAH ARENDT For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
HANNAH ARENDT Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
HANNAH ARENDT There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...
HANNAH ARENDT Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
HANNAH ARENDT Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
HANNAH ARENDT What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ...
HANNAH ARENDT Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
HANNAH ARENDT Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardo...
HANNAH ARENDT Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
HANNAH ARENDT The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
HANNAH ARENDT No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our histo...
HANNAH ARENDT Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses ha...
HANNAH ARENDT It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ...
HANNAH ARENDT Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
HANNAH ARENDT Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making...
HANNAH ARENDT The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor a...
HANNAH ARENDT If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fift...
HANNAH ARENDT The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the mor...
HANNAH ARENDT Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...
HANNAH ARENDT Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machiner...
HANNAH ARENDT The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide ...
HANNAH ARENDT The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o...
HANNAH ARENDT Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is ...
HANNAH ARENDT The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
HANNAH ARENDT Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses...
HANNAH ARENDT What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fa...
HANNAH ARENDT Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges ...
HANNAH ARENDT Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes ...
HANNAH ARENDT We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the ...
HANNAH ARENDT The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither p...
HANNAH ARENDT There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
HANNAH ARENDT The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without ...
HANNAH ARENDT To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforce...
HANNAH ARENDT Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can i...
HANNAH ARENDT Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortalit...
HANNAH ARENDT The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
HANNAH ARENDT What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indee...
HANNAH ARENDT Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
HANNAH ARENDT It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary associatio...
HANNAH ARENDT When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this m...
HANNAH ARENDT Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is alway...
HANNAH ARENDT In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because...
HANNAH ARENDT The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...
HANNAH ARENDT No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the where...
HANNAH ARENDT The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, whic...
HANNAH ARENDT Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from ot...
HANNAH ARENDT There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civi...
HANNAH ARENDT Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and proc...
HANNAH ARENDT Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
HANNAH ARENDT Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is ...
HANNAH ARENDT Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to t...
HANNAH ARENDT Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
HANNAH ARENDT It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...
HANNAH ARENDT The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
HANNAH ARENDT The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o...
HANNAH ARENDT This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what com...
HANNAH ARENDT Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces tha...
HANNAH ARENDT Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotl...
HANNAH ARENDT No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...
HANNAH ARENDT Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...
HANNAH ARENDT The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what on...
HANNAH ARENDT Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
HANNAH ARENDT As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's ...
HANNAH ARENDT Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.
HANNAH ARENDT It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long cours...
HANNAH ARENDT It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is r...
HANNAH ARENDT When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
HANNAH ARENDT Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its ...
HANNAH ARENDT To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
HANNAH ARENDT The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which "the right to a...
HANNAH ARENDT The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without ...
HANNAH ARENDT Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
HANNAH ARENDT Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You ...
HANNAH ARENDT When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this m...
HANNAH ARENDT What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the bod...
HANNAH ARENDT The philosophy of Hobb...
HANNAH ARENDT Power, according to Ho...
HANNAH ARENDT Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the i...
HANNAH ARENDT Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...
HANNAH ARENDT And the German society of eighty million people had been shielded against reality and factuality by ...
HANNAH ARENDT Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is ...
HANNAH ARENDT Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think
HANNAH ARENDT The relatively new trouble with mass society is perhaps even more serious, but not because of the ma...
HANNAH ARENDT Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
HANNAH ARENDT The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity ...
HANNAH ARENDT There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the vic...
HANNAH ARENDT Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
HANNAH ARENDT It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ...
HANNAH ARENDT The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men d...
HANNAH ARENDT As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable...
HANNAH ARENDT Significantly, it was HANNAH ARENDT … the Nazis, without admitting it, learned as much from American gangster organizations as their p...
HANNAH ARENDT Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happ...
HANNAH ARENDT That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though ...
HANNAH ARENDT non seulement le passé n’est jamais mort, mais il n’est même pas passé
HANNAH ARENDT Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the domination of far-flung territories with heterogen...
HANNAH ARENDT Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outsid...
HANNAH ARENDT A circular letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to all German authorities abroad shortly afte...
HANNAH ARENDT The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old inter...
HANNAH ARENDT This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature o...
HANNAH ARENDT THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...
HANNAH ARENDT Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
HANNAH ARENDT Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of E...
HANNAH ARENDT Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—us...
HANNAH ARENDT Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitat...
HANNAH ARENDT For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...
HANNAH ARENDT No puedes pretender que quien te ama te trate a ti menos cruelmente de lo que se trata a sí mismo. ...
HANNAH ARENDT In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; w...
HANNAH ARENDT Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, s...
HANNAH ARENDT Do not do what you would undo if caught.
LEAH ARENDT We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.
JIM ARENDT When they started understanding things kind of clicked together, it showed. We started shooting the ...
JIM ARENDT We worked on a few things to help improve it.
JIM ARENDT The kids did real well and we won seven of our last eight. It's all about getting in the playoffs ag...
JIM ARENDT Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.
JIM ARENDT Our transition game went well. We passed to the open man for the best shot possible. We also had 18 ...
JIM ARENDT Our offense and defense struggled. We have put ourselves in a hole by losing our first two district ...
JIM ARENDT It is a market with great potential.
DANNY ARENDT Sales to the Arab market take place two or three times a year, and they sometimes, but not always, p...
DANNY ARENDT Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.
DANNY ARENDT If Apex goes to a new fair in the region, we are interested in participating.
DANNY ARENDT Th danger of exchanging the necessary insecurity of philosophical thought for the total explanation ...
HANNA ARENDT In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, a...
HANNAH KENT I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock tick...
HANNAH WARE Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage...
JACK HANNAH I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou...
HANNAH MURRAY I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landsc...
HANNAH KENT 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to...
HANNAH MURRAY A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
BARRY HANNAH I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no...
BARRY HANNAH I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by me...
BARRY HANNAH I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
BARRY HANNAH My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insuranc...
BARRY HANNAH I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague....
BARRY HANNAH I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I need...
BARRY HANNAH I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like...
BARRY HANNAH I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it ...
BARRY HANNAH I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've...
BARRY HANNAH My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
BARRY HANNAH Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write so...
BARRY HANNAH I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly....
BARRY HANNAH My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe...
BARRY HANNAH Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club...
BARRY HANNAH Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess...
BARRY HANNAH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi...
BARRY HANNAH Love and despair go hand in hand.
BARRY HANNAH I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of...
BARRY HANNAH I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
BARRY HANNAH I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work in...
BARRY HANNAH A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
BARRY HANNAH I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That...
BARRY HANNAH Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ...
BARRY HANNAH Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw...
BARRY HANNAH I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a...
HANNAH STORM Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
HANOI HANNAH I had to do something for the country.
HANOI HANNAH And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
HANOI HANNAH We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
HANOI HANNAH Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast...
HANOI HANNAH It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr...
HANOI HANNAH Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
HANOI HANNAH I would like to see America some day.
HANOI HANNAH Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstru...
HANOI HANNAH I put my heart in my work.
HANOI HANNAH And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believ...
HANOI HANNAH There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
HANOI HANNAH We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn...
HANOI HANNAH I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
HANOI HANNAH Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a frien...
HANOI HANNAH American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
HANOI HANNAH This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
HANOI HANNAH Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the f...
HANOI HANNAH I am happy with what I've done.
HANOI HANNAH We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movemen...
HANNAH WARE My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playli...
HANNAH WARE I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort ...
HANNAH WARE I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ...
HANNAH WARE I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don...
HANNAH WARE I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ...
HANNAH WARE I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get anoth...
HANNAH WARE Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love b...
HANNAH WARE My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
HANNAH WARE I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I...
HANNAH WARE Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't re...
HANNAH WARE My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how ...
HANNAH WARE I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
HANNAH TOINTON To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&...
HANNAH TOINTON Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yo...
HANNAH TOINTON I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and ...
HANNAH TOINTON My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career c...
HANNAH STORM I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
HANNAH STORM