"He (Eichmann) was not scary at all. He was just a little guy."
Arendt seemed to have this feeling when he saw Eichmann: This People are so mediocre that even treating him as a villain is too much praise for him.
"You can't deny that there's a huge gap between these unspeakable acts of horror and this man's mediocre knowledge."
"In the case of Eichmann, we don't find a trace of demon-like extreme evil, he just doesn't have the ability to think. "
"You forbid the publication of books, and you come to teach me what it means to be respectable!"
- It's a good response.
"The role of those Jewish leaders offers the most striking perspective on the moral downfall of European high society as a whole caused by the Nazis. Not only in Germany, but in almost every country. Not only among the persecuted, but It's the same among victims."
"I see understanding as my duty, and it's the duty of all who write on this subject."
- Seeing this makes me cry.
In the end, all luck and all misfortune come from loneliness.
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