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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.

Hannah Arendt

It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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Difference Equality Literature
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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Appearance Connection Life Survive
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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Action Battle Desire Power Revolution Violence
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Attraction Politics Won
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
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
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
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Force Love Nature Politics Powerful Reason
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
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 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
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow

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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