The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.
Philosophers
Hannah Arendt
Born in 1906, Hannah Arendt fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. The Origins of Totalitarianism dissected modern domination; the Eichmann trial yielded "the banality of evil." Her warning sharpens as democracies weaken.
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Hannah Arendt's Other Quotes
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
No one has the right to obey.