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

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. – Hannah Arendt

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Freedom
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – Hannah Arendt

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. – Hannah Arendt

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

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Revolution

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

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus Christ

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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. – Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

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