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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem

From Arendt's controversial report on the trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, where she coined the phrase 'the banality of evil.'

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