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Alice’s Quotes

“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”
― Hannah Arendt

tags: forgiveness, history

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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

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“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
― Hannah Arendt

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

tags: communism, nazism, post-factual, totalitarianism

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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

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