"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
-Hannah Arendt
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"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.“
-Hannah Arendt
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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."
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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