Hannah Arendt

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of read more

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this read more

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in read more

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.