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Hannah Arendt on Revolution

1906–1975 Germany

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.

Crises of the Republic (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hannah Arendt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.