Hannah Arendt

Frases de Hannah Arendt

• “Political freedom is only possible in the public space of action and speech, where men show themselves to one another in their plurality.”

• “Evil is never radical, it is only extreme; it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension, it spreads like a fungus.”

• “Thinking always means thinking critically, and thinking critically is always to be hostile to every established dogma.”

• “Promising is the only way to dispose of the future, maintaining predictability in a world of constant uncertainty.”

• “Without forgiveness, humanity would be chained to every past deed, unable to act or start something truly new.”

• “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction no longer exists.”

• “Plurality is the law of the Earth, the fact that men, and not Man, live on the Earth and inhabit the world.”

• “Authority has been banished from the modern world, and there is no greater error than to confuse authority with power or violence.”

• “Love for the world is what allows us to act and take responsibility for preserving what is common to us all.”

• “No one has the right to obey if obedience means the surrender of one's own conscience and the ability to judge.”

• “The aim of education is to preserve the world from what is new and revolutionary, so that childhood may be protected and renewed.”

• “Any pain can be borne if you put it into a story or tell a story about it.”

• “Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.”

• “The essence of human rights is the right to have rights.”

• “No one can be free unless they know that freedom is a public reality.”

• “Factual truth, if it stands in the way of a group’s profit or pleasure, is greeted with greater hostility than theoretical truth.”

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

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

• “Strength and violence are distinct things. Violence is, by its nature, instrumental.”

• “To be free and to act are one and the same.”