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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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Feeling Oppression People
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
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
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
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
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
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
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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Beginning Politics Problem Revolution
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
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Alive Deep Life Metaphor Possible Thinking
Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
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Appearance Connection Life Survive

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