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Hannah Arendt3 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 · 1963The 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 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 · 1975Blaise Pascal1 quote
We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Captain Hook1 quote
What would the world be like without Captain Hook? — Captain Hook · 1991Mary Wollstonecraft1 quote
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790Steve Bannon1 quote
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. — Steve Bannon · 2016Thomas a Kempis1 quote
Of the two evils the lesser is always to be chosen. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427W.H. Auden1 quote
Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table. — W.H. Auden · 1940