Hannah Arendt · Skopia

Quotes

13

Political literature

To abolish the fences of laws between men—as tyranny does—means to take away man's liberties and destroy freedom as a living political reality; for the space between men as it is hedged in by laws, is the living space of freedom.

The Origins of Totalitarianism · 1951

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine · Political literature · Historical literature

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

1963

★ 5.3

Political literature

The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope.

The Origins of Totalinarianism · 1951

★ 3.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

1969

★ 3.7

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Books

2

Eichmann in Jerusalem

1963★ 7.9

Between Past and Future

1961★ 6.8