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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.

Hannah Arendt

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
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Absence Power Violence
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
A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers
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Development Failure Life Man Quite Thinking
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
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Alive Existence History Human Man Perfection
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Enemy Greatness Laughter
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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Beginning Politics Problem Revolution
The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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Feeling Oppression People
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
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
What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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Action Company Man Thinking Togetherness

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