Hannah Arendt

"If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress."

"The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous , robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth no…"

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"On the subject the evil of hypocrisy. Source: On Revolution, published in 1963. As quoted by Scroll Staff : Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s polit…"

"What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler tha…"

"The case of the conscience of Eichmann, which is admittedly complicated but is by no means unique, is scarcely comparable to the case of the German generals, one of whom, when asked at Nuremberg, "How…"

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was…"

"It is not murder which is forgiven but the killer, his person as it appears in circumstances and intentions. The trouble with the Nazi criminals was precisely that they renounced voluntarily all perso…"