Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. Hannah Arendt More Quotes by Hannah Arendt More Quotes From Hannah Arendt The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim. Hannah Arendt police yesterday children Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise. Hannah Arendt anger earthquakes mean Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt being-hurt forgiveness life-changing We are free to change the world and start something new in it. Hannah Arendt changing-the-world something-new world Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature. Hannah Arendt humanity men people I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help. Hannah Arendt risk running today Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. Hannah Arendt diversity memorable men Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature. Hannah Arendt truth-is political people To think and to be fully alive are the same. Hannah Arendt inspire life thinking The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves. Hannah Arendt reality world No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt politics peace civilization Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt revolution action lying Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. Hannah Arendt responsibility would-be world I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges. Hannah Arendt feminism giving-up desire Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. Hannah Arendt peculiar peace mean Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Hannah Arendt politician political serious The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. Hannah Arendt practice war world All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them. Hannah Arendt political power people Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt propaganda momentum language In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt goes-on trying order
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