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

Hannah Arendt

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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Commitment Evil Greatness Human Person
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
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
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
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
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy, our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.
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Desire Goodness Happiness Ourselves
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
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
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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Feeling Oppression People
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
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power

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

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