Ханна Арендт цитаты

„В условиях тирании гораздо легче действовать, чем думать.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Любить жизнь легко, когда ты за границей. Там, где тебя никто не знает, и ты одна, и вся твоя жизнь в твоих руках, ты как никогда ощущаешь себя хозяйкой.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Печальная правда в том, что большинство зла делают люди, которые не изменили своего мнения о том, чтобы делать зло или добро.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Самые радикальные революционеры становятся консерваторами на другой день после революции.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Любовь, в отличие от дружбы, не выдерживает публичности.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Любая развитая идеология создается, поддерживается и совершенствуется как политическое оружие, а не теоретическая доктрина.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Война в ХХ веке – это роскошь, доступная лишь малым нациям.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„Тоталитаризм стремится не к деспотическому господству над людьми, а к установлению такой системы, в которой люди совершенно не нужны.“

—  Ханна Арендт

„The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani, commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) epilogue.
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)

„Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.“

—  Hannah Arendt

„The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.“

—  Hannah Arendt

„Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.“

—  Hannah Arendt

„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 (i. e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i. e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга The Origins of Totalitarianism

Part 3, Ch. 13, § 3.
Источник: On the subject the ideal subjects for a totalitarian authority. Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.

„Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга Rahel Varnhagen

Источник: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

„Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.“

—  Hannah Arendt

„It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга The Human Condition

The Human Condition (1958).

„If […] the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant—in this respect almost alone among the philosophers—was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга The Life of the Mind

Источник: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), p. 13.

„There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.“

—  Hannah Arendt

„One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.“

—  Hannah Arendt, книга The Origins of Totalitarianism

Источник: The Origins of Totalitarianism