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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Hannah Arendt

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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
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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Live Suffering World Wrong
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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Absence Power Violence
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Ideas Life
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
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Force Love Nature Politics Powerful Reason
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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Advice Reality
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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Greatness Oneself
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

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

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