Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
HANNAH ARENDTIt 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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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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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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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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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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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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To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
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We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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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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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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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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