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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness History
Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
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Desire Enjoyment Loss
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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Heart Man Mindset Passion
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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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
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
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 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
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
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Lie Quality Reality Stop Thinking World
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Evil Goodness Mindset People Sad Truth
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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
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
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep

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