The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
HANNAH ARENDT
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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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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If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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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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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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