Hannah Arendt

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from…

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes…

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of…

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road…

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once…

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an…

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable…

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom…

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up…

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying…

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence…

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear…

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity…

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of…

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in…