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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.
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Destruction Forever Ourselves Safety Secure
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
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
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Freedom Liberty Man Necessary Success Win
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
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
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
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
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Absence Power Violence
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Greatness Poet Survive
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Beginning Born Freedom Identify Man Philosophy
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People

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