By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
The Human Condition
by Hannah Arendt
(1958)
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On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt
(1963)
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Men in Dark Times
by Hannah Arendt
(1968)