Hannah Quotes

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

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

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

To think and to be fully alive are the same.