Hannah Arendt — "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own und…"

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is c…"

"The problem of evil in the twentieth century is not the problem of radical evil, but the problem of the banality of evil."

"The greatest crimes in history are not committed by 'madmen' but by 'normal' people who are too weak to resist the pressure of the moment."

"The difficulty in the way of thinking about evil is that it is not a thought-provoking phenomenon."

"Evil comes from a failure to think. It is a lack of imagination."