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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.

Hannah Arendt

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
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Best Crime Excuse Possible
The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.
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Destruction Forever Ourselves Safety Secure
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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
It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy, our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.
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Desire Goodness Happiness Ourselves
The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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Crime Liberty Nation Violence
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
Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil Failure Thinking
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
For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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End Ideas Misery Poor
Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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Feeling Slave
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

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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