Hannah Arendt

“Martin Heidegger at Eighty,”

“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi . Speaking of her book The Human Condition , as quoted in Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (2004) by Elisabeth Young”

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. As quoted in The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1989) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 114”

“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good. The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking”

“The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good? The good is no longer even being measured. Interview with French writer Roger Errera in New York Review of Books”

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. The New Yorker”

“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Men in Dark Times”

“Niemand hat das Recht zu gehorchen.”

“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. On Revolution (1963), ch. 2”

“In politics , love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well”