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Hannah Arendt Quotes about War

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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Hannah Arendt
Peace, War, Winning

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

Hannah Arendt
Peace, War, Errors
Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt
War, Practice, World
Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Hannah Arendt
Peace, War, People

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt
Death, War, Simple
Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Hannah Arendt
Peace, War, Lying

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt
Peace, War, Women

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.

Hannah Arendt
Integrity, War, Divorce

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