Hannah Arendt Quotes About Hypocrisy

Quotes about: Hypocrisy

• As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Hypocrite, Evil

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

• Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Rotten

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Evil, Hypocrisy

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

• In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

  Hannah Arendt

  Love Is, Hypocrisy, Stranger

  Letter to James Baldwin, November 21, 1962.

• Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Ambitious

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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