We are free to change the world and start something new in it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Change, Freedom, Innovation, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Human nature, Indecision, Morality, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Interpretation, Meaning, Revelation, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Evil, Interdependence, Thoughtlessness, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Equality…is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Birth, Equality, Organization, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Body, Soul, Thought, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Accountability, Importance, Involvement, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Beginning, Thinking, Truth, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Change, Ideology, Transformation, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Mind, Perceptions, Risk, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Man’s chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Accountability, Communication, Morality, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Compliance, Fear, Resistance, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Awareness, Intention, Reflection, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Consequences, Fate, Ignorance, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Forgiveness, History, Reversal, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Death, Escapism, Perfectionism, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Destruction, Power, Violence, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Experience, Limitations, Perception, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Crimes, Deterrence, Punishment, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Action, Thought., Tyranny, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Authority, Loyalty, Power, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Communication, Reflection, Urge, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation’s losing battle against it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Loss, Oppression, Resistance, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Christianity, Faith, Immortality, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Creativity, History, Innovation, 0 Hannah Arendt Copy
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