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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.

Hannah Arendt

Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Experience Man Talk
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
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Attraction Best Ideas Ourselves Time Worst
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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Destruction Establishment Old Violence
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
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Courage Intelligence Thinking
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
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
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
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
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Lie Quality Reality Stop Thinking World
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Ability Exercise Person Right Wrong
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking

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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