Arendt

Famous quotes containing the word arendt:

    Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to to the core.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    The blessing of life as a whole ... can never be found in work.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)