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  1. 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

  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 Montesquieu

    When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
     
    [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

  7. A quotation from Montesquieu

    When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
     
    [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

  8. A quotation from Montesquieu

    When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
     
    [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

  9. A quotation from Montesquieu

    When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
     
    [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

  10. A quotation from Montesquieu

    When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.
     
    [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

  11. A quotation from W. H. Auden

    Those who will not reason
    Perish in the act:
    Those who will not act
    Perish for that reason.

    W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
    “Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

    More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

  12. A quotation from W. H. Auden

    Those who will not reason
    Perish in the act:
    Those who will not act
    Perish for that reason.

    W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
    “Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

    More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

  13. A quotation from W. H. Auden

    Those who will not reason
    Perish in the act:
    Those who will not act
    Perish for that reason.

    W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
    “Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

    More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

  14. A quotation from W. H. Auden

    Those who will not reason
    Perish in the act:
    Those who will not act
    Perish for that reason.

    W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
    “Shorts,” No. 7 (c. 1930), Collected Poems, Part 2 “1927-1932” (1976 ed.) [ed. Mendelson]

    More about this quote: wist.info/auden-w-h/26031/


    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #whauden #auden #action #danger #deed #hesitation #hesitancy #inaction #indecision #irrationality #paralysis #passive #reason #reflex #thoughtlessness #unreason #whimsy

  15. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    … the strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil ….

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10727/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #carelessness #evil #heedlessness #indifference #insouciance #thoughtlessness #uncaringness

  16. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    … the strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil ….

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10727/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #carelessness #evil #heedlessness #indifference #insouciance #thoughtlessness #uncaringness

  17. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    … the strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil ….

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10727/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #carelessness #evil #heedlessness #indifference #insouciance #thoughtlessness #uncaringness

  18. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    … the strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil ….

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10727/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #carelessness #evil #heedlessness #indifference #insouciance #thoughtlessness #uncaringness

  19. Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought

    Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.

    thehumanist.com/commentary/los

  20. Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought

    Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.

    thehumanist.com/commentary/los

  21. Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought

    Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.

    thehumanist.com/commentary/los

  22. Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought

    Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.

    thehumanist.com/commentary/los

  23. Losing Our #Minds: How #AI Is Erasing the Space of #Thought

    Keep your #superintelligence. The real danger is quieter: a kind of polished #thoughtlessness, the production of outputs that feel increasingly less owned.

    thehumanist.com/commentary/los

  24. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46252/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #cliche #consideration #convention #creativity #distraction #evil #inattention #language #reality #standards #thinking #thoughtlessness #unthinking

  25. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46252/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #cliche #consideration #convention #creativity #distraction #evil #inattention #language #reality #standards #thinking #thoughtlessness #unthinking

  26. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46252/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #cliche #consideration #convention #creativity #distraction #evil #inattention #language #reality #standards #thinking #thoughtlessness #unthinking

  27. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46252/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #cliche #consideration #convention #creativity #distraction #evil #inattention #language #reality #standards #thinking #thoughtlessness #unthinking

  28. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79461…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #conversation #chatter #speech #thought #thoughtlessness #unthinking #yammering

  29. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79461…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #conversation #chatter #speech #thought #thoughtlessness #unthinking #yammering

  30. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79461…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #conversation #chatter #speech #thought #thoughtlessness #unthinking #yammering

  31. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/79461…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #conversation #chatter #speech #thought #thoughtlessness #unthinking #yammering