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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Hannah Arendt

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
Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend in public opinion everywhere.
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Opinion Powerful Race
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
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
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
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
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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Heart Man Mindset Passion
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
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
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
Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
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Commitment Evil Need Religious
Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Beginning Born Freedom Identify Man Philosophy
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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Art Believe People Politics
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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Evil Himself Learning Word

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

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