Hannah Arendt Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Men, Law

  "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" by Hannah Arendt, (Ch. VIII), 1963.

• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Ifs And, Anticipation

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

• What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, May, Results

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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