"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.“

-Hannah Arendt

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"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."

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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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"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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"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

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"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

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