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.
There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?
This quote is just one of 12 total Hannah Arendt quotes in our collection. Hannah Arendt is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
This quote is just one of 12 total Hannah Arendt quotes in our collection. Hannah Arendt is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.