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 ArendtAbout author
- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: October 14, 1906
- Died: December 4, 1975
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