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And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.

Hannah Arendt

What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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Fall History Place
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
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Desire Enjoyment Loss
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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Feeling Quite Wrong
The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.
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Destruction Forever Ourselves Safety Secure
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
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Alive Deep Life Metaphor Possible Thinking
For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
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Evidence Future Violence War
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.
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Greatness Oneself
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Act Action Possible
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom

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