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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

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
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
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Alive Existence History Human Man Perfection
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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Enemy Greatness Laughter
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
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Commitment Evil Need Religious
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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Easy Hands Life Love Time Yourself
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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Greatness Oneself
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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Evil Himself Learning Word
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
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

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