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You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it i...more

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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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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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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody lef...more

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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.

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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 ...more