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" Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. "
Without
Action
Meaningless
" By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. "
Reality
Beauty
Beautiful
" Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. "
Objects
Life
Culture
" Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. "
Silent
Things
Death
" Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. "
Day
Good
Growth
" Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. "
Few
Horse
Good
" Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. "
Freedom
Key
Action
" For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. "
Things
Doing
Before
" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "
Go
Escape
Try
" 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. "
Past
Long
Appearance
" It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. "
Country
Tune
Traditions
" Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. "
Know
Successful
Man
" No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. "
Politics
Beginning
Freedom
" 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. "
Power
Punishment
Time
" Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. "
Use
Words
Equal
" 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. "
Hypocrite
Evil
Us
" Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. "
Mob
Masses
Only
" Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. "
Thought
Beginning
End
" Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. "
Experience
Love
Love Is
" Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. "
Power
Rules
Where
" Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. "
Human
Future
Way
" Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. "
Lying
Know
Pick
" Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. "
Storytelling
Defining
Without
" The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. "
Leader
He
Error
" The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. "
Last
Authority
Political
" The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. "
Earth
Human
Human Condition
" The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. "
Reputation
Revolution
Violence
" The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. "
Will
Revolution
Day
" The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. "
Odds
Always
Certainty
" There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. "
Dangerous
Thinking
Itself
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