Banality Quote by Hannah Arendt

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us…

— Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were,…

— Hannah Arendt

When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have any criminal…

— Hannah Arendt

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

— Stanley Milgram

“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment" (as it…

— Janet Malcolm

“I had not then learned the measure of “man’s inhumanity to man,” nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the…

— Solomon Northup

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he poses…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“Learning, in an age where it was the light to theocratic darkness, was to be feared and reviled because it threatened vested interests.”

— Darran Anderson

“The wicked people were gone, but fear remained.Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief, and even…

— Joseph Conrad

“he spoke of what he called the "inner history of weakness, of what disappoints us in leaders, the timidity of thought, the hesitancy and…

— Ronald Steel

“Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all…

— Tony Judt