Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Hannah ArendtIt is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
Hannah ArendtThe strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.
Hannah ArendtThat Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.
Hannah Arendt