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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.

Hannah Arendt

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
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 greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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Commitment Evil Greatness Human Person
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
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
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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Commitment Evil Need Religious
The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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Effort Escape History Ideas Responsibility
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Nation Politics Support
For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
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Evidence Future Violence War
The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Language Public
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Ideas Life
Society is the form in which the fact of mutual dependence for the sake of life and nothing else assumes public significance and where the activities connected with sheer survival are permitted to appear in public.
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Appearance Connection Life Survive
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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Danger Philosophy Thinking

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