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Hannah Arendt Quotes
«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
appeared, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, crimes, Crime and Punishment, deterrence, emergence, for the first time, initial, initialed, initials, on the contrary, possessed, reappearance, specific, the commission
«Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
expressed, senses, sense of hearing, sense of touch, the senses
«Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
affair, anew, belonging, end product, existing, expel, expelled, Happy ending, hold in, in-between, indication, indications, insert, inserted, inserting, in a sense, in common, love affair, mode, New World, partners, related, relates, representative, Return to, separates, The Lovers, transformed, worldliness, world affairs
«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.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
absent, disappearance, disappearances, jeopardy, opposites
«The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
ideology, The Third, Third World
«Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
debate, discussion, fickle, formed, forming, masses, moods, public debate, public discussion, The Masses, unreliable
«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
apparatus, assign, assigning, assigns, coercion, dominating, external, ideology, machinery, namely, peculiar, role, rule by, terrorize, terrorizing, thanks, totalitarianism
«Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
constitute, curse, economic, economic freedom, economic growth, good condition, turn out
«It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
banalities, banality, defying, Eichmann, fearsome, Long Course, summing, summing up, wickedness