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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

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
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Lying Power Revolution Weapon
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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Evil Lost Quality
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
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
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Act Action Possible
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
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
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
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 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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