It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
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