"La banalitat del mal" és una frase encunyada per Hannah Arendt cinquanta anys enrere al seu llibre sobre el tinent coronel de les SS Adolf Eichmann, que concloïa que els grans mals de la història no han estat executats per fanàtics o psicòpates, sinó per gent corrent que acceptava el statu quo i considerava que les seues accions eren normals.
“The banality of evil” is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt fifty years ago in her book about German Nazi SS lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann, that concludes that great evils in history were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the status quo and believed their actions were normal.