The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
HANNAH ARENDTThe third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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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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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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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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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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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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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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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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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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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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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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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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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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