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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

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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Oneself Right World
It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy, our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.
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Desire Goodness Happiness Ourselves
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
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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Freedom Liberty Man Necessary Success Win
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.
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Ability Exercise Person Right Wrong
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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Art Believe People Politics
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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Beginning Politics Problem Revolution
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
A life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers
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Development Failure Life Man Quite Thinking
The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
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Alive Deep Life Metaphor Possible Thinking
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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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Difference Equality Literature

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