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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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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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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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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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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Power 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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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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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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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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