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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Hannah Arendt

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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Greatness Poet Survive
Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Material Power
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
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
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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Evil Survive
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Experience Man Talk
Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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Hands Hate Politics Violence
The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
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Alive Deep Life Metaphor Possible Thinking
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 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
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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Life Presence Shallow
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
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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Ability Exercise Person Right Wrong

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