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

Hannah Arendt

Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
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Direction Human Life Nature Possible Presence Wild
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 greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Enemy Greatness Laughter
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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End Ideas Misery Poor
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
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
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.
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Government Man Nature
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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Crime Liberty Nation Violence
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy

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