Banality Of Evil Quotes

#1. It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

#2. At the Nuremberg trials, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt described the actions and the architects of the Holocaust with a simple, memorable phase--saying that the whole lot represented 'the banality of evil.' Her long ago words applied well to the man before us.

Michael Morton

#3. Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Studs Terkel

#4. Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

Alan Dean Foster

#5. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

Teju Cole

#6. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. 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

#7. When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.

Harold Monro

#8. I sound the same to myself

Brandon Mull

#9. Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

Ruth Bernhard

#10. We must learn to see the world anew.

Albert Einstein

#11. If there's evil in recklessness, there's also evil in banality.

Robert Draper

#12. Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

Ervin Staub

#13. The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Brian Sibley

#14. A scientist must be a traveller, an explorer. Knowledge comes from experience. ... The path to enlightenment is never linear.

Joanne Owen

#15. In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

Ann Voskamp

#16. Super blessed & excited to be part of the Nickelodeon family! It's amazing to be on a network I grew up watching!

Megan Lee

#17. She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

Thrity Umrigar

#18. The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

Jaggi Vasudev

#19. Much worse is the evil of banality.

Vanessa Place

#20. They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

Samuel De Champlain

#21. It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

Stafford Cripps