Quotations by Arendt

And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations […], we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

• On The meaning of punishment, their position: Retributivism100%

Freedom of opinion is a farce unless factual information is guaranteed and the facts themselves are not in dispute.

• On The value of truth, their position: The primacy of truth70%

It is […] a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

• On Forgiveness, their position: Conditionalism75%

Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.

• On Hope, their position: The principle of hope70%

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

• On Violence, their position: Just war90%

The raison d'être of politics is freedom, and its field of experience is action.

• On Political liberty, their position: Positive liberty60%

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.

• On Moral responsibility, their position: Giving each their due90%

We became aware of the existence of a right to have rights (and that means to live in a framework where one is judged by one's actions and opinions) and a right to belong to some kind of organized community, only when millions of people emerged who had lost and could not regain these rights because of the new global political situation.

• On Nature of rights, their position: Political constructivism70%

What is important for me is to understand.

• On The point of philosophy, their position: Clarifying thought45%