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  1. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were “convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,” Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41493/

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  2. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

  3. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

  4. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

  5. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

  6. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

  7. Epstein, Western Decline, & The Moral Collapse Of The Elites
    What is at stake is no longer who “visited the island” or who “caught a ride on Epstein’s plane.” What is at stake is the fact that networks of this kind only exist when they are backed by deep institutional protection. There is no ritual pedophilia, no human trafficking on a transnational scale, no systematic production of extreme material without political, police, judicial, and media cover. This is not conspiracy: it is the logic of power.



    From this point on, the West can no longer hide behind the idea of gradual decline. It is not merely cultural degeneration or a loss of values.

    It is something darker: an elite that operates outside any recognizable moral limits and yet continues to govern. People directly or indirectly involved with this world continue to decide elections, wars, economic policies, and the fate of entire societies.

    Another decisive element is that we still do not know who is behind the leak. This uncertainty is central. It may be a move by Donald Trump or by sectors aligned with him, attempting to definitively destroy their internal enemies and reorganize power in the United States in a minimally positive direction. It may be the opposite: a controlled release of material intended to pressure Trump into serving the interests of the Democrats and the Deep State.

    And the uncomfortable truth, impossible to ignore, is that all of this may still be part of an even deeper and more macabre plan by the Deep State – encompassing both Democrats and Republicans – to “resolve the Epstein issue” through a brutal campaign of collective desensitization, “normalizing” in public opinion the idea that the Western elite is composed of pedophiles, satanists, and cannibals.

    This reinforces a critical point: the truth only came out because it stopped being useful to keep it hidden.

    For decades, all of this was known behind the scenes. The silence was not the result of investigative failure, but of a high-level decision.

    The press stayed silent. The agencies stayed silent. The courts stayed silent.

    The system worked exactly as it was supposed to, all in order to protect itself.

    #^https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/epstein-western-decline-moral-collapse-elites

    The Slow Epstein Earthquake
    The post-modern ‘fall’ into nihilism has crashed finally into its inevitable ‘dead end’ (as predicted by Nietzsche in 1888). The ‘Enlightenment’ paradigm has finally metamorphosed into its opposite: A world without values, meaning or purpose (beyond avaricious self-enrichment). This implies the end too, of the very concept of Truth that used to be at the heart of western civilisation, since Plato.

    ...

    This mechanical way of thinking has played a large part in the third tier to the ‘Davos Rupture’ (after the intellectual demise and the collapse of trust in the leadership). Mechanical thinking based in a deterministic pseudo-scientific world view led to economic contradictions which prevented western economists from seeing what was under their nose: a hyper-financialised economic system placed entirely at the service of the oligarchs and insiders.

    ..

    Epstein emerges from the myriad emails as a paedophile and utterly immoral certainly, but also as highly intelligent and a serious geo-political player, whose political insights were prized by high-level figures around the globe. He was a master-player behind geo-politics, as Michael Wolff described (as far back as 2018, as well as in recently released email correspondence) in the war between Jewish power and the Gentiles, too.

    This suggests that Epstein was less a tool of Intelligence Services, but more their ‘peer’. No wonder leaders sought his company (and for grossly immoral reasons too, we cannot not ignore). And clearly the Deep (uniparty) State manoeuvred through him. And in the end, Epstein knew too much.

    #^https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-slow-epstein-earthquake/

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  8. A quotation from Joseph Conrad

    “No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
    Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

    More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

  9. A quotation from Joseph Conrad

    “No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
    Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

    More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

  10. A quotation from Joseph Conrad

    “No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
    Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

    More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

  11. A quotation from Joseph Conrad

    “No,” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in moral principle.”

    Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-English novelist [b. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski]
    Nostromo, Part 3 “The Lighthouse,” ch. 10 (1904)

    More about this quote: wist.info/conrad-joseph/81693/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephconrad #nostromo #amorality #bigbusiness #businessinterests #expediency #materialthings #money #property #wealth

  12. University of Southern California: Can we prevent AI from acting like a sociopath?. “Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT sometimes suggest courses of action or spout rhetoric in conversation that many users would consider amoral or downright psychopathic. … Even more alarming, such behavior is frequently spontaneous. LLMs can suddenly take on sociopathic traits for no clear […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/14/university-of-southern-california-can-we-prevent-ai-from-acting-like-a-sociopath/
  13. "In 2026, there’s every reason to think the Trump show will get even crazier. With all that extra handshaking [that Karoline Leavitt claims causes the bruises on his right hand], there’s no telling what could happen."

    ~ Justin Glawe

    #Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
    /9

    publicnotice.co/p/2025-politic

  14. "When a man with Trump’s personality feels caged in, when he feels besieged and abandoned and begins to lose control of events, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous."

    #Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
    /8

  15. "His narcissism; his lack of conscience, remorse, or empathy; his pathological lying and grandiosity; his sense of entitlement, impulsivity, and aggression; his cruelty, predatory behavior, and sadism—these are the forces that drive him. If we don’t understand that, we understand almost nothing of importance about him. And beware:"

    #Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
    /7

  16. In a statement entitled "Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying," Peter Wehner warns,

    "When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous. ...

    Heraclitus taught that character is destiny. In Trump’s case, his sociopathy is destiny."

    #Trump #Venezuela #war #narcissism #cruelty #sociopathy #amorality
    /6

    theatlantic.com/politics/2025/

  17. A quotation from Euripides

    HECUBA:          O gods, spare me the sight
       of this thankless breed, these politicians
       who cringe for favors from a screaming mob
       and do not care what harm they do their friends,
       providing they can please a crowd!
     
    [ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἀχάριστον ὑμῶν σπέρμ᾿, ὅσοι δημηγόρους
       ζηλοῦτε τιμάς· μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι,
       οἳ τοὺς φίλους βλάπτοντες οὐ φροντίζετε,
       ἢν τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγητέ τι.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 254ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/76300/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #amorality #crowd #demagogue #mob #politician #ruthlessness #thankfulness

  18. A quotation from Euripides

    HECUBA:          O gods, spare me the sight
       of this thankless breed, these politicians
       who cringe for favors from a screaming mob
       and do not care what harm they do their friends,
       providing they can please a crowd!
     
    [ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἀχάριστον ὑμῶν σπέρμ᾿, ὅσοι δημηγόρους
       ζηλοῦτε τιμάς· μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι,
       οἳ τοὺς φίλους βλάπτοντες οὐ φροντίζετε,
       ἢν τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγητέ τι.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 254ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/76300/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #amorality #crowd #demagogue #mob #politician #ruthlessness #thankfulness

  19. A quotation from Euripides

    HECUBA:          O gods, spare me the sight
       of this thankless breed, these politicians
       who cringe for favors from a screaming mob
       and do not care what harm they do their friends,
       providing they can please a crowd!
     
    [ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἀχάριστον ὑμῶν σπέρμ᾿, ὅσοι δημηγόρους
       ζηλοῦτε τιμάς· μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι,
       οἳ τοὺς φίλους βλάπτοντες οὐ φροντίζετε,
       ἢν τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγητέ τι.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 254ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/76300/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #amorality #crowd #demagogue #mob #politician #ruthlessness #thankfulness