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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

The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
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
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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Himself Philosophy Suffering
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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
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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Courage Intelligence Thinking
Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
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Commitment Evil Need Religious
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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Government Politics
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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Advice Reality
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
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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Character Evil Lost People
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Crime Politics True
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics

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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