"It is terrifying to see how many people simply lack empathy in instances when they need not lack it. Trying to describe the pain of another person to a fully-grown adult who lacks something so fundamentally human is impossible, they simply don’t care. If they cannot see it, it cannot be real. And if it is real, it cannot be that bad. Many will jump through every single mental hoop possible and even harm themselves to preserve their egos and sense of superiority. That's because they are hollow and have nothing to offer to the world so they put all their value in the luck they had.

Banality itself is the true evil. A lack of imagination, a derth of curiosity, an apathy towards anything not directly related to one's own material advancement. Evil shrugs its shoulders. Evil's concerns are for itself alone. Evil grows myopic for lack of looking past itself. I keep exchanging a phrase, with irony of course, but less and less each time we deliver it. "We're gonna need a bigger Nuremberg. Even if knowing is uncomfortable and makes you feel tightness in your chest, that discomfort is exactly what will keep you vigilant against fascism and genocide. Wehret den Anfängen only works if one knows what to look out for.

There’s a hair’s breadth between deep sincerity and theatrical moral performance. When someone says, “I’m one of the Good Ones and I see through the evil,” they might be right—but they also might be narrating their own hero arc. Keep an eye on that".