Hannah Arendt Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

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

  Hannah Arendt

  Memorable, Political Revolution, Revolutionary Leaders

  New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

• 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

  Lying, Revolution, Action

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

• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dubious, Matter, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Events, Revolution

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.30, Penguin

• The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Foundation, Revolution, Rebellion

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

• His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

  Hannah Arendt

  Uprising, Political, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

• The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Europe, Political

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