A thread to celebrate Hannah Arendt's birthday:
14 October, 1906.

“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

“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

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

"You say philosophy is generally considered a masculine occupation... It need not remain a masculine occupation."
- Hannah Arendt

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
- Hannah Arendt

"I can assure you that my personal needs as an individual are fulfilled when I have good books, good music, and good friends."
- Hannah Arendt