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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Hannah Arendt

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.
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Attention Reality Resistance
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
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
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
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Desire Enjoyment Loss
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
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
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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Argument Avoid Control Present
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
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
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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Anger Justice Oneself

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

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