This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People spoke to foreigners with an averted gaze, and everybody seemed to know somebody who had just vanished. The rumors of what… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“We humans almost universally have a false self-image of our species. We think that monstrous, wicked policies must be, can only be,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had… — Hannah Arendt 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
“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had drunk half… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The banality of evil. It wasn’t the frothing madman. It was the conscientious us.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
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