“To make others less happy is a crime.”
~ Roger Ebert / Courtesy Austin Kleon
Emily St. John Mandel on Crims
“Now imagine how much wilder and stranger and more intense that would be if you and your colleagues were showing up at the office to perpetuate a massive crime . . . What story do you have to tell yourself, if you’re one of those people, to sleep at night? How do you convince yourself that it’s somehow OK?”
~ Emily St. John Mandel / FT, October 23rd 2020
Hannah Arendt on Collective Guilt
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
~ Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt on Punishment
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
~ Hannah Arendt