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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.

— Hannah Arendt Love and Saint Augustine (1929)

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The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

The Life of the Mind (1978)

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Men in Dark Times (1968)

Persecution of powerless or power-losing groups may not be a very pleasant spectacle, but it does not spring from human meanness alone.

The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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.

The Human Condition (1958)

Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)

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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.

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The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Kalki Krishnamurthy Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.

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