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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
The quote appears in his 1947 book “Nuremberg Diary,” which documented his observations and conversations with the defendants. Gilbert was trying to understand what could drive seemingly ordinary people to commit or enable genocide and mass murder.
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Gustave M. Gilbert
The quote appears in his 1947 book “Nuremberg Diary,” which documented his observations and conversations with the defendants. Gilbert was trying to understand what could drive seemingly ordinary people to commit or enable genocide and mass murder.
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