Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
Hannah ArendtTo be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah ArendtThe result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
Hannah ArendtPromises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah ArendtEven in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.
Hannah Arendt