Inability to think is not stupidity; it can be found in highly intelligent people, and wickedness is hardly its cause, if only because thoughtlessness as well as stupidity are much more frequent phenomena than wickedness.  The trouble is precisely that no wicked heart, a relatively rare phenomenon, is necessary to cause great evil.

Hannah Arendt, ‘Thinking and Moral Considerations,’ Responsibility and Judgment

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