The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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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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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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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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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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