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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

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
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Act Action Possible
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
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
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
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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Oneself Right World
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
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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
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
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
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
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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Heart Man Mindset Passion
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public

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