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.
HANNAH ARENDTThe last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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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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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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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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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
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Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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