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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
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
The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
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 third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
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
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
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Ideas Life
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

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