We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. – Hannah Arendt
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt
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. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt