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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.

Hannah Arendt

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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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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Easy Effort World
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
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Direction Human Life Nature Possible Presence Wild
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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Crime Liberty Nation Violence
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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End Ideas Misery Poor
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
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
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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Development Failure Life Man Quite Thinking
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
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
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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Easy Forget Goodness True World
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
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
It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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Difference Equality Literature
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 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
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Ability Exercise Person Right Wrong

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