Hannah Arendt Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, People

• the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Tyrants, Political

• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Women, Thinking, Tyrants

  In W. H. Auden A Certain World (1970) p. 369

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Civilization, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

• If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth.
  The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.

  Hannah Arendt

  Practice, Storm, Desert

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Men, Political

  The Human Condition ch. 45 (1958)

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