Hannah Arendt Quote

"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."

by:	Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American political theorist, escaped Nazi Germany
Source:	On Revolution (1963), ch. 2.
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Categories:	Hypocrisy, Vice, Integrity, Crime, Character
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The antithesis of righteousness. A malady that is regnant, if not endemic, on this planet, which renders it a fearsome monument to the radical fallenness of Man.  -- Patrick Henry, Red Hill      3
Love it! It is my personal belief and experience that INTEGRITY is the foundation of the sovereign life. The integrity of a group is harder to manage, and the bigger it gets, the more 'corrupt' it becomes, even with a 'majority' with high integrity. ALL of my own personal failures can be attributed to some lack of integrity on my part; I could blame (and did), but once I stopped lying to myself it all became so clear. Hypocrisy is insidious in nature. The lies we tell ourselves bind us and bind others. Freeing myself from such delusion and from creating more is the real Liberation. ;-)  -- E Archer, NYC      3
E Archer, I honor you. I greatly value your unfailingly exemplary commentaries. Thank you.  -- Patrick Henry, Red Hill      1
We hold this truth to be self evident.  -- Mike, NORWALK      2
We need specifics, who was she referring? What hypocritic was she referring, it must have been Hannah herself, when no specifics engaged, sorry to say she would pass away in such a condition. The idea for the man or woman of justice is to die with their mental facilities in the best possible order.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown

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