Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

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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.

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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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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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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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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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

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