Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

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.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.