No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its re...
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
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.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality...
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
The common prejudice that love is as common as romance may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only...
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the vie...
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was...
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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