Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
~ Hannah Arendt

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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
~ Hannah Arendt

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It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
~ Hannah Arendt

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