Hannah Arendt Quotes

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Moral: It all depends.

The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.