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

Hannah Arendt

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
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
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality 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
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.
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Government Man Nature
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
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
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 greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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Commitment Evil Greatness Human Person
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
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
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
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
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

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