Famous Hannah Arendt Quotes

  • Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. – Hannah Arendt

    Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.– Hannah Arendt

  • the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons – Hannah Arendt

    the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons– Hannah Arendt

  • Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it. – Hannah Arendt

    Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.– Hannah Arendt

  • Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-”the quality of temptation. – Hannah Arendt

    Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-”the quality of temptation.– Hannah Arendt

  • Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. – Hannah Arendt

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

  • there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered. – Hannah Arendt

    there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.– Hannah Arendt

  • Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. – Hannah Arendt

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

  • We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves. – Hannah Arendt

    We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.– Hannah Arendt