[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson 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: A Report on the Banality of Evil ch. 15 (1963)
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