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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.

Hannah Arendt

Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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Development Different See
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
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
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Crime Enough Power Punishment
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
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
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Courage Life Politics
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
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
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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Evil Himself Learning Word
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
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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Live Suffering World Wrong
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
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
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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Acceptance Nation
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
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Oneself Right World

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.

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