Hannah Arendt
Banality of evil, political theory
Sayings by Hannah Arendt
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
The greatest evil in the world is the evil which is done by nobody, the evil which is done by all of us.
No one has the right to obey.
The greatest danger for modern dictatorships is not the active opposition but the passive resistance of the populace.
The only way to escape the absurdity of life is to live it to the full.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
The world is not defined by the past, but by the future.
Action, to be free, must be for the sake of starting something new.
The trouble with modern philosophy is that it has forgotten how to think.
The freedom to be political is the freedom to change the world.
The world is not a home, but a stage.
The most basic human need is to be seen and heard.
Evil comes from a failure to think. It is a lack of imagination.
The world is an arena, not a home.
The essence of totalitarian government is terror, and its principle of action is the logical deduction from an ideological premise.
To be free means to be able to begin.
The only possible answer to the problem of evil is to refuse to participate in it.
The public realm is where human beings appear to each other.
Thinking is a dangerous business.
The only way to be truly human is to be political.