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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.

Hannah Arendt

The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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Effort Escape History Ideas Responsibility
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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Greatness Poet Survive
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
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
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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Greatness Oneself
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep
In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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Character Evil Lost People
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
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
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
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking

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