Hannah Arendt

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

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

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are read more

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

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

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