Quotes About The Banality Of Evil

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Teju Cole

#4. 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

#5. Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Julie Garwood

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

Robert Draper

#7. It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Lightnin' Hopkins

#8. The frozen ocean ... of Boston life.

Julia Ward Howe

#9. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Elizabeth Of The Trinity

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

Ervin Staub

#11. I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

Curt Schilling

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

Studs Terkel

#13. To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

Zig Ziglar

#14. The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

James A. Michener

#15. 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

#16. Archers stood together, no matter what. Not even frilly-smelling laundry could tear them apart.

Karen Witemeyer

#17. All the stories go with you, Franny thought, closing her eyes. All the things I didn't listen to, won't remember, never got right, wasn't around for. All

Ann Patchett

#18. 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

#19. No, tell him I'm going to spend the day with a new boyfriend." He didn't need to know I was referring to a new book boyfriend.

Tabatha Vargo

#20. Much worse is the evil of banality.

Vanessa Place

#21. Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#22. Opportunity is the great bawd.

Benjamin Franklin

#23. This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Robert Byrd