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

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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. "

" Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. "

" Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. "

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

" Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. "

" For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. "

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Human Condition

" The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. "

" Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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