Zitate und Sprüche von Hannah Arendt

Die größte Fähigkeit großer Anführer scheint heutzutage Unfehlbarkeit zu sein; niemand kann sich Fehler eingestehen.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Das ist die Premisse, nach der ich immer gelebt habe: Bereite dich auf das Schlimmste vor; erwarte das Beste; und nimm es wie es kommt.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

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.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.