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Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.

Hannah Arendt

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
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
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
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
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Lie Quality Reality Stop Thinking World
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
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
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.
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Easy Hands Life Love Time Yourself
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep
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
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
There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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Argument Avoid Control Present

Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.

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