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From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s need to think.
Adolf Eichmann
Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (286)

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(Added by Fred Seddon on 1/15/2005, 2:14pm)
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