Hannah Arendt
German-born American political theorist (1906 to 1975); author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), her report on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.
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Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight
Justice does not permit anything of the sort; it demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight
Justice does not permit anything of the sort; it demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
Under the Nazi regime, evil lost the quality by which most people recognize it: temptation
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
Every custom has its origin in some single act
Yet every custom has its origin in some single act.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
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Any act that has once appeared in human history remains a potentiality long after it has passed
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
Whatever the punishment, once a crime has first appeared, its reappearance is more likely than its first emergence was
On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
Political responsibility exists apart from individual deeds and can be neither judged morally nor tried in a criminal court
This, of course, is not to deny that there is such a thing as political responsibility which, however, exists quite apart from what the individual member of the group has done and therefore can neither be judged in moral terms nor be brought before a criminal court.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1964
Every government takes political responsibility for its predecessor's deeds, and every nation for its past
Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its predecessor and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1964
So many were like the accused: neither perverted nor sadistic, but terribly and terrifyingly normal
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
For law and morality, this normality is more terrifying than the atrocities: the new criminal can hardly know he does wrong
From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied - as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels - that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani, commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
Denmark's people and government behaved uniquely among all European countries in the story of the Danish Jews
The story of the Danish Jews is sui generis, and the behavior of the Danish people and their government was unique among all the countries of Europe - whether occupied, or a partner of the Axis, or neutral and truly independent.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
A court's jurisdiction must be settled before trial, and a court found competent must also pass judgment
The question of a court's jurisdiction must be decided before the trial begins; and once a court has been declared competent, it must also pass judgment.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition) Said c. 1963–1964
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