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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 greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Enemy Greatness Laughter
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
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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Difference Equality Literature
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Beginning Born Freedom Identify Man Philosophy
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
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
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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Age Virtue Wisdom Young

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