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

„Равенство — результат организации общества. Мы не рождаемся равными.“

„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.“

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

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

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

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

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

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

„When 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.“

„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“

„Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.“

— Hannah Arendt, книга Rahel Varnhagen

Источник: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

„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 The Origins of Totalitarianism

Источник: The Origins of Totalitarianism

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

— Hannah Arendt, книга Eichmann in Jerusalem

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

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

„Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.“

„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.“

„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, 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.

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