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.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...