Lying Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Lying

Past

Violence

Hannah Arendt

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Action

Lying

Revolution

Hannah Arendt

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Lying

Peace

War

Hannah Arendt

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation’s losing battle against it.

Battle

Losing

Lying

Hannah Arendt

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed.

Lying

Real

Truth

Hannah Arendt

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Liars

Lying

Wish

Hannah Arendt

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Lines

Lying

Order

Hannah Arendt

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Lying

Political

Tools

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa’di

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Morgan Freeman

John Welwood

Omar Khayyam

Able

Acceptance

Action

Actors

Adherence

Advantage

Affair

Afterlife

Age

Alive

Alternatives

Ambitious

Anger

Animal

Anticipation

Apathy

Appearance

Argument

Arise

Art

Association

Assuming

Astrology

Atheism

Atrocities

Automation

Balance

Battle

Beautiful

Beauty

Being Different

Being Hurt

Being In Love

Being Sad

Believe

Blessing

Body

Book

Boredom

Born

Broken Promises

Bureaucracy

Business

Capacity

Caring

Causes

Cease

Change

Changing The World

Character

Children

Choices

Citizens

Civilization

Class

Clue

Commitment

Common

Company

Competition

Concepts

Conditions

Conflict

Confusion

Conviction

Convincing

Corruption

Country

Creating

Creativity

Creeds

Crime

Criminals

Culture

Dangerous

Death

Decision

Deeds

Definitions

Demand

Deny

Depressing

Desert

Desire

Destiny

Development

Devil

Differences

Different

Discovery

Disgusting

Distinguished

Diversity

Divorce

Doe

Doing Nothing

Done

Doomed

Doubt

Dramatic

Dream

Dubious

Duration

Dying

Earth

Earthquakes

Effort

Emo

Emotion

Ends

Enemy

Envy

Equality

Errors

Essence

Essentials

Europe

Events

Evil

Excellence

Excess

Exercise

Expansion

Expression

Eye

Facts

Fate

Faults

Fear

Feels

Feminism

Fickle

Fiction

Fighting

Firsts

Five Senses

Flow

Forever

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Form

Found

Foundation

Freedom

Friendship

Friendship Love

Frustrated

Frustration

Funny

Future

Gentleman

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Goal

Goes On

Government

Grace

Grammar

Gratitude

Groups

Growth

Guilt

Guilty

Gun

Hands

Heart

Helping

Hero

History

Holocaust

Home

Honor

Human Nature

Humanity

Hypocrisy

Hypocrite

Ideas

Ideology

Ifs And

Ill Will

Impossible

Impotence

Incapable

Independence

Independent

Individual Strength

Infinite

Initiative

Inspirational

Inspire

Inspired

Inspiring

Integrity

Interdependence

Isms

Isolated

Isolation

Issues

Judging

Keeping Promises

Kept Promises

Keys

Knowing

Knowledge

Knows

Language

Lasting Happiness

Laughter

Law

Liars

Life

Life Changing

Life Story

Light

Limited Time

Limits

Lines

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Losing

Loss

Lost

Love

Love Is

Loving Life

Loyalty

Luck

Lying

Made

Make Sense

Makers

Matter

May

Mean

Meaningful

Meaningfulness

Meaningless

Medicine

Memorable

Memories

Men

Might

Mind

Miracle

Mistake

Moments

Momentum

Morning

Motivational

Moving

Names

Nature

Needs

New Beginnings

Night

Nihilism

Notebook

Numbers

Nurse

Nursery

Oblivion

Odds

One Day

Opponents

Opportunity

Opposites

Order

Ordinary

Organization

Our Thoughts

Our World

Oysters

Pain

Party

Past

Patterns

Peace

Peculiar

People

Perception

Perfect

Philosopher

Philosophic

Philosophy

Plato

Poetry

Police

Political

Political Revolution

Politician

Politics

Power

Powerful

Practice

Progress

Promise

Propaganda

Propose

Psychology

Punishment

Pursuit Of Happiness

Quality

Quests

Quiet

Quintessence

Race

Reading

Real

Reality

Rebellion

Redemption

Religious

Repent

Responsibility

Results

Revenge

Reverse

Revolution

Revolutionary Leaders

Rights

Risk

Roles

Rooms

Roots

Rotten

Running

Sake

Satisfaction

Saws

Secret

Self

Sensual

Serious

Should Have

Sides

Sight

Significance

Simple

Solitude

Something New

Soul

Sound

Space

Speak

Speaking Up

Speech

Spring

Stakes

States

Stories

Storm

Strange

Stranger

Strength

Strong

Stubborn

Stupid

Subjects

Successful

Suffering

Support

Survival

Taken

Taste

Taught Us

Teaching

Temptation

Terror

Thinking

Thoughtful

Thoughts And Actions

Thrive

Today

Together

Tools

Treasure

True And False

Truth

Truth Is

Trying

Tunes

Twenties

Two

Type

Typical

Tyrants

Unique

Uprising

Victory

Viewpoints

Violence

Violent

Vocabulary

Want

War

Way

Weakness

Winning

Wisdom

Wise

Wish

Withdrawal

Witty

Women

Work

World

Worry

Would Be

Writing

Years

Yesterday

Yield

Lying Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation’s losing battle against it.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Get Social with TBU

Lying Quotes by

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa’di

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Morgan Freeman

John Welwood

Omar Khayyam

Topics by Hannah Arendt

Menu

Menu