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Evil9 quotes
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal · 1662It 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. — Hannah Arendt · 1963Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table. — W.H. Auden · 1940The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt · 1963Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. — Steve Bannon · 2016All 9 quotes →Nature of evil2 quotes
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. — Hannah Arendt · 1963Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table. — W.H. Auden · 1940Hurting others1 quote
We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Hypocrisy1 quote
The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt · 1963The Holocaust1 quote
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. — Hannah Arendt · 1963Unintended consequences1 quote
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good. — Hannah Arendt · 1975