Hannah Arendt Quotes About Imperialism

• In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

  Hannah Arendt

  Business, Taken, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Foundation, Expansion

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lying, Battle, Losing

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Class, Expansion, Limits

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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