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Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and w... See more
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt • Hannah Arendt Quote
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." --Hannah Arendt
Moreover, for Arendt, it is when everyday people lose their capacity for internal dialogue and deliberation, and find themselves only able to regurgitate slogans and contradictory platitudes, that great evil occurs. So, too, when people lose the ability to imagine the perspectives of others, or as she put it in her essay “Truth and Politics,” “maki
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
“Terror can only rule over men who are isolated against each other,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Diana M. Smith • Putting an end to political nonsense
At the top of the pyramid, we have what Arendt considered full-featured humans, enjoying the highest level of agency possible: making history. The locus of action is the public.
How to Make History
"The trouble with modern theories of behaviorism is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt