Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (2012)

Keywords: based-on-true-story, female-protagonist, flashback, jew, jewish, lecture, magazine, nazi, philosopher, student

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Hannah Arendt: You forbid books and you speak of decency.

Hannah Arendt: But isn't it interesting that a man who has done everything a murderous system demanded of him who even hastens to disclose any details about his work, that this man insists on the fact he has nothing against Jews?

Mary McCarthy: [interrupting a German discussion] Whatever you are saying, I agree with all of you.::Hannah Arendt: Everybody, English now, please.

Kurt Blumenfeld: [on Eichmann] And he thinks he is in no way responsible for the fate of the people he had transported?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. It is his vision. He's a bureaucrat.

[last lines]::Hannah Arendt: The whole world is trying to prove that I'm wrong. And no one sees my real mistake. Evil cannot be both ordinary and radical. Evil is always extreme. Never radical. Good is always deep and radical.::Heinrich Blücher: Would you have covered the trial if you knew what was expecting you?::Hannah Arendt: Yes. I would have covered it. Maybe to learn who my real friends are.::Heinrich Blücher: Kurt was your friend and would have remaind such.::Hannah Arendt: Kurt was my family.

'Hannah Arendt' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Arendt, Hannah Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Le procès d'Adolf Eichmann

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Film socialisme

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Hannah Arendt - Das Mädchen aus der Fremde

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Hannah Arendt:

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"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."

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. 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 most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism."

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."

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

"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 reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."

"These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties."

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

"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."

"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 has become a thing of the past."