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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

Hannah Arendt

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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Feeling Quite Wrong
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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Acceptance Nation
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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Greatness Poet Survive
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Change Revolution
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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Argument Avoid Control Present
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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Evidence Future Violence War
Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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Anger Justice Oneself

The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.

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