Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting u…

- Hannah Arendt

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed a…

- Hannah Arendt

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

- Hannah Arendt

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fic…

- Hannah Arendt

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

- Hannah Arendt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

- Hannah Arendt

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

- Hannah Arendt

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

- Hannah Arendt