Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
HANNAH ARENDTBut this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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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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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.
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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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Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.
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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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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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Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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