Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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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.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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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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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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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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We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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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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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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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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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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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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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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