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And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.

Hannah Arendt

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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Feeling Slave
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
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Force Love Nature Politics Powerful Reason
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
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
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
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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Easy Forget Goodness True World
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
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
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
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

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