Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
[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.