David Pulliam

“Eichmann’s own attitude was different. First of all, the indictment for murder was wrong: “With the killing of Jews I had nothing to do. I never killed a Jew, or a non-Jew, for that matter —I never killed any human being. I never gave an order to kill either a Jew or a non-Jew; I just did not do it,” or, as he was later to qualify this statement, “It so happened ... that I had not once to do it”—for he left no doubt that he would have killed his own father if he had received an order to that effect.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“Few moderns may think of the linear development of human history in the same terms the old Christians used, but the modern world of ideas is unimaginable without the irreversible linearity of connection and direction they provided. Everyone on the planet recognizes the Christian scheme of marking and pointing time’s arrow, even when we noncommittally mark our dates BCE/ CE.”
― James J. O'Donnell, Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

“paradox is more than that: it should entail a conflict between two deeply held convictions.”
― Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

“And the judges did not believe him, because they were too good, and perhaps also too conscious of the very foundations of their profession, to admit that an average, “normal” person, neither feeble-minded nor indoctrinated nor cynical, could be perfectly incapable of telling right from wrong.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil