Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those…

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