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Hannah Arendt

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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Evil Lost Quality
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
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Direction Human Life Nature Possible Presence Wild
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
There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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Argument Avoid Control Present
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
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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Acceptance Nation
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
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 third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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

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