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.
HANNAH ARENDTFactuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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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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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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