Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of...

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil...

Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil...

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech...

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...