The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...#Hannah Arendt
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...#Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...#Hannah Arendt
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...#Hannah Arendt
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...#Hannah Arendt
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....#Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....#Hannah Arendt
