For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
HANNAH ARENDTColonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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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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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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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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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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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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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.
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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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