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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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Acceptance Nation
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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Argument Avoid Control Present
The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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Effort Escape History Ideas Responsibility
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
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
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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Fall History Place
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
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
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
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History

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