Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. It is now often conveniently… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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