It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.Hannah Arendt
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
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Act,
Actuality,
After,
Appearance,
Become,
Been,
Every,
History,
Human,
Long,
Made,
Mankind,
Nature,
Once,
Past,
Recorded,
Thing,
Very
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