War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
HANNAH ARENDTPower 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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Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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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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As 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 language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Justice insists on the importance of Adolf Eichmann… On trial are his deeds, not the sufferings of the Jews, not the German people or mankind, not even anti-Semitism and racism.
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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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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For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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