Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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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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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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War has . . . become a luxury which only the small nations can afford.
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