Hannah Arendt Quotes

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

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.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.

Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.