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Hannah Arendt

Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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Government Politics
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
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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
Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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Hands Hate Politics Violence
The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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Creation Hide Promise
In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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Character Evil Lost People
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
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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Art Believe People Politics
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
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Attraction Best Ideas Ourselves Time Worst

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