WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg functionaries – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Arendt, Hannah -- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Postscript (1963) https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/80301/ https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/80301/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:40:50 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=80301 The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them.


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