Quote by Hannah Arendt
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day

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

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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Death
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
power
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. – Hannah Arendt

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History
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Other Quotes from
Revolution
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I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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Revolution

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. – Ambrose Bierce

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Revolution

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Revolution

The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Revolution

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Im torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older. – Eric McCormack

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parenting

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure dont need an enemy. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Nature

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

Category:
Futility

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

Category:
History