“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 Origins of Totalitarianism

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Eichmann in Jerusalem

1963

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The Human Condition

1958

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Between past and future

1961

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On violence

2005

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