Hannah Arendt Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.”

“It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.”

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”

“Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.”

“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”

“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.”

“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”

“These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.”