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Kissinger, Henry. "The Viet Nam Negotiations." Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1969.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man Has." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. Penguin Books, 1963, ch. 2, sec. 5.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Kissinger, Henry. "Reflections on Containment." Foreign Affairs, June 1994.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Leben der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver]. 17 Jan. 1932, Komödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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Arendt, Hanna. Quoted in A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, written by W. H. Auden. Viking Press, 1970.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Der gute Mensch von Sezuan [The Good Person of Szechwan]. 1943, Zürich Schauspielhaus, Zürich, Switzerland.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Good Person Of Szechwan, edited by Tom Kuhn and Charlotte Ryland, translated by John Willett. Methuen Drama, 2012.

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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Goering, Hermann. Directive to Reinhard Heydrich. 31 July 1941.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Lebed der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer. [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver.] 17 Jan. 1932, omödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, foreword.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

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Schurz, Carl. Remarks at senate meeting. Senate meeting. 29 Feb. 1872, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Work liberates.

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Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

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Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

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Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Die Lösung [The Solution]." Die Welt, 1959.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

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Adorno, Theodor. "Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des Hörens [On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening]." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Journal of Social Research], 1938.

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Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening." Modernism: An Anthology of Documents, edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou. University of Chicago Press, 1998.