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Hannah Arendt

German-American political theorist and philosopher

1906–1975

10 quotes, most often on Government, Politics and Good & Evil.

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)
- Politics
- Power
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Part 3, Chapter 10
- Government
- Power

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