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Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

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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.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989.
-- Hannah Arendt, (Oct 14 1906-1975), German-US political scientist; She is best known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.


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