Arendt, Hannah

"It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil." - Eichmann in Jerusalem

"It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution." - in New Yorker

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." - quoted in W.H. Auden's A Certain World