Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerus Quotes

A collection of quotes by Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerus.

Hannah Arendt was a prominent political theorist and philosopher. Born in Germany in 1906, she fled the Nazi regime in 1933 and eventually settled in the United States. Arendt's work focused on topics such as totalitarianism, authority, and the nature of power. Her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" (1963) deeply explored the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi official responsible for coordinating the Holocaust. Arendt controversially coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe how ordinary individuals can participate in horrific acts when following orders within a bureaucratic framework.