Banality Quote by Studs Terkel

“We humans almost universally have a false self-image of our species. We think that monstrous, wicked policies must be, can only be, conceived and…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the…

— Hannah Arendt

“The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration."…

— Adam Kirsch

“Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak,…

— Clive Barker

She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that…

— Thrity Umrigar

Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and…

— Philip Zimbardo

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

— Carl Jung

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“evil shall with evil be expelled...”

— Steig Larson

“Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The problem of evil has always seemed to me to be the price we pay for having an intelligible world, one that we can…

— Leah Libresco