Hannah Arendt Quotes on Politics
Hannah Arendt was a 20th-century German-American political theorist whose work shaped post-war thinking about totalitarianism, political action, and moral responsibility. This page collects quotes attributed to Hannah Arendt on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hannah Arendt:
“The banality of evil.”
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Attributed to Hannah Arendt:
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.”
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Attributed to Hannah Arendt:
“Politics is not the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
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Attributed to Hannah Arendt:
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”