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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
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Desire Enjoyment Loss
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
It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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Difference Equality Literature
The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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Creation Hide Promise
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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 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
Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.
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Action Human Live Philosophy
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Greatness Poet Survive

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