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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.

Hannah Arendt

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
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Appearance Connection Life Survive
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
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
Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend in public opinion everywhere.
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Opinion Powerful Race
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
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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Easy Hands Life Love Time Yourself
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
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
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
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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

Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.

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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.

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