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" 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. "

Hannah Arendt

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Growth

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Try

" 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. "

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

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" Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. "

" 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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" 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. "

" To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. "

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Free

" 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. "

" Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. "