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To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.

Hannah Arendt

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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Creation Hide Promise
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Crime Politics True
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Enemy Greatness Laughter
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life 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
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Attraction Politics Won
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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Crime Liberty Nation Violence
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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Government Politics

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