The Least of All Possible Evils Quotes

“In both domestic and international law, as Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover dryly remarked in their book on forensic anthropology, ‘lawyers tend to recruit scientists for courtroom appearances much like the way the police shop for attack-dogs – they look for signs of good breeding coupled with a willingness to take a bite out of an adversary.’20”
― Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

“Derived from the Latin forensis, the word’s root refers to the ‘forum’, and the practice and skill of making an argument before a professional, political or legal gathering. In classical”
― Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

“the Yale professor Stanley Milgram’s infamous 1961 experiment sought to investigate the extent to which ordinary people would obey the orders of figures in authority to inflict pain on others. On one side of a room divided by a one-way mirror, a scientist ordered a volunteer to deliver electrical shocks of ever-increasing strength to a person strapped to a chair on the other side of the room whenever she or he gave wrong answers to questions read from a questionnaire.”
― Eyal Weizman, The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza