It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long… — Hannah Arendt

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

1963
★ 5.3

On the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust.

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Citation
Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.