Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Hannah Arendt Quotes
AdaptabilityOptimismResilience This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
CommunicationCultureEntertainmentHuman Experience Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
InnovationMiraclesOvercoming Odds The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
OpportunityPowerRevolution Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
IdeologyRevolutionTransformation The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
ExpressionLimitations of LanguagePerceptionSensory Experience Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
BeautyIdealismIsolationReality By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Domestic AffairsInternational AffairsRevolutionViolence The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
FreedomLiberationNecessitySelf-DiscoveryStruggle Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Civil DisobedienceTraditionVoluntary Association It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Crime PreventionCriminal BehaviorDeterrencePunishment EffectivenessRecidivism No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
AccountabilityInfallibilityLeadership The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
ChangeContentFidelityLoyaltyMind Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
ArtHuman ExperienceIdentityLovePerception Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
DeceptionEvilHuman NatureHypocrisyJustice 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.
ActionCourageFreedomResistanceThinking Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Collective GuiltConsequenceJusticeResponsibility 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.
Enduring ImpactEternityHistoryHuman NatureLegacy It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
CompletenessDeathFinalityLifeSerenity Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
ConflictPowerViolence Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
FreedomLifePerfectionism In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
DeceptionTruth The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Human NaturePoliticsSpeech Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.