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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

Hannah Arendt

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
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
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
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 only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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Development Different See
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
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
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Act Action Possible
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
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.
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Attention Reality Resistance
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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Easy Forget Goodness True World

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