Hannah Arendt

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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.

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of read more

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.

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.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this read more

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.