Hannah Arendt (2012)

Harvey Friedman: Thomas Miller

Quotes 

• Thomas Miller : So, I see you were all students of the confounding Martin Heidegger.

  Heinrich Blücher : Oh, I didn't even finish High School.

  Thomas Miller : But, aren't you a professor at Bard?

• Mary McCarthy : Oh, Hemmingway was just an ambulance driver. Thomas, as a writer he was nothing more than the premature ejaculator of the 20th Century.

  Thomas Miller : Oh, you just hate him because he wrote like a real man.

• Thomas Miller : You blame the Jewish people for their own destruction.

  Hannah Arendt : I never blamed the Jewish people! Resistance was impossible. But, perhaps, there is something in-between resistance - and cooperation. And only in that sense do I say that maybe some of the Jewish leaders might have behaved differently. It is profoundly important to ask these questions. Because, the role of the Jewish leaders gives the most striking insight into the totality of the moral collapse that the Nazis caused in respectable human being society. And not only in Germany, but in almost all countries. Not only among the persecutors, but, also among the victims.