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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.

Hannah Arendt

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
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
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
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Crime Enough Power Punishment
Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
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Easy Effort World
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive

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