Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
HANNAH ARENDTA life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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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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Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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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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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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Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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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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