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Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality? -- Studs Terkel
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. -- Teju Cole
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. -- Alan Dean Foster
[About Eichmann:] 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
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable. -- Philip Zimbardo

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