

“And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.”
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“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. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
― Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― The Life of the Mind
― The Life of the Mind
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