10 Quotes by Hannah Arendt about evil


  • Author Hannah Arendt
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    Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet--and this is its horror--it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.

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  • Author Hannah Arendt
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    the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

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    It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

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    Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

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