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

Hannah Arendt

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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Live Suffering World Wrong
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
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
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Crime Enough Power Punishment
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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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Hate Man People Power Reality Tolerance
Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
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Action Battle Desire Power Revolution Violence
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Ability Exercise Person Right Wrong
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth

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