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Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.

Hannah Arendt

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
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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Development Different See
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.
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Attention Reality Resistance
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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
The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.
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Destruction Forever Ourselves Safety Secure
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
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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Advice Reality
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
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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Lying Power Revolution Weapon
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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End Ideas Misery Poor

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