“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [..] and the distinction between true and false [..] no longer exists.”
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
"You say philosophy is generally considered a masculine occupation... It need not remain a masculine occupation."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
“When people are atomised, a movement or a strongman arises and he offers a story or an ideology which claims to explain everything, why people are unhappy.”
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
"Perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy is to make functionaries and cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt