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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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Fall History Place
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Freedom Liberty Man Necessary Success Win
Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Experience Man Talk
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
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
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Evil Goodness Mindset People Sad Truth
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
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
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
Justice insists on the importance of Adolf Eichmann… On trial are his deeds, not the sufferings of the Jews, not the German people or mankind, not even anti-Semitism and racism.
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Deed Importance Justice Suffering
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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Easy Forget Goodness True World
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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal

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