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Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt
Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Rotten
'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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

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.

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