Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever. β¨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Edition, p.237, University of Chicago Press
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- For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. β¨ Hannah Arendt (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, p.243, Penguin
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