The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that th...ey were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is "w...hat should be." Now, if you're taught to live up to a "what should be" that never existed--only an occult superstition, no proof of this "should be"Mthen you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the pun...ishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depre...ssing to admit guilt and to repent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of ...mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... stars that marked those in whose faces... you had not looked. 'They were cast out as if they were some animals, some beasts.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
smashing the windows of sleep and dream smashing the windows of history... a whiteness scattering in hailstones each a mirror for man's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »