Hannah Arendt Quotes

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

All they wanted was freedom.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

I say that the most inefficient, wasteful self-government is worth more than the most efficient dictatorship.

We are not against any man—or any nation—or any system—except as it is hostile to freedom.

Democracy is the best revenge.

When liberty is on the march, we ought to be with it.