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For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.

Hannah Arendt

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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
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
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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Hands Hate Politics Violence
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
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
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
A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers
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Development Failure Life Man Quite Thinking
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
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
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Freedom Liberty Man Necessary Success Win
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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

For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.

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For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.

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