Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexi…

Hannah Arendt
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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. ✨ 'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2
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