Hannah Arendt Quotes

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

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.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law--in this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection. Here rewards are conferred for conniving at dishonesty, but never for exposing it

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.