But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
HANNAH ARENDTTo be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Justice insists on the importance of Adolf Eichmann… On trial are his deeds, not the sufferings of the Jews, not the German people or mankind, not even anti-Semitism and racism.
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It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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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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In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
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The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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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.
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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