The best Quotes by Hannah Arendt

The best Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born American historian and political philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.

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