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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.

Hannah Arendt

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
We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking
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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Evil Goodness Mindset People Sad Truth
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
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
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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Greatness Oneself
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Forgiveness History
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
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Crime Enough Power Punishment
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Attraction Politics Won
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
For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst.
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Attraction Best Ideas Ourselves Time Worst
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy

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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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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