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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.

Hannah Arendt

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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Feeling Oppression People
Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Children Nation
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
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
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 language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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Age Virtue Wisdom Young
No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature’s wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
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Direction Human Life Nature Possible Presence Wild
What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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Hate Man People Power Reality Tolerance
Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
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Appearance Connection Life Survive
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
The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
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Alive Existence History Human Man Perfection
There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Death Kill People
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy

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