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.
HANNAH ARENDTAs citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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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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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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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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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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