"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. This new type of criminal ... commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong."
-- Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem
"Drenched in information, buffeted by competing ideologies, surrounded by experts, pummeled by nonstop commercial appeals, how tempting it is to let our minds shut down and simply join up -- with some welcoming institution, bureaucracy, subculture, belief system. And if someday our own small role in that large and complex enterprise requires us to break a few formal moral rules, who exactly will be to blame?"
-- William Hart
Evil: A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to bin Laden
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