“I've written this against a background of both reckless optimism and reckless despair. It holds that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal.”
More from Hannah Arendt
“Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere, and whenever he can.”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good…”
“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to…”
“Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”