Hannah Arendt Quotes About Integrity

Quotes about: Integrity

• 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

• Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Deeds, Company

• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lonely, Integrity, Heart

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

• To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, War, Divorce

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