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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.

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.

Hannah Arendt
Lying, Revolution, Action
Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

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Political, Events, Revolution
Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.30, Penguin

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Hannah Arendt
Foundation, Revolution, Rebellion
Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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