Hannah Arendt ( 10 of 15 )
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.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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.
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 Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in read more
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.
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.
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.
