Quotation by

Hannah Arendt

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

Power

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Hannah Arendt means that true revolutionaries act when they recognize a moment where authority or control has weakened or been abandoned. They seize the opportunity to take power because it is available, rather than trying to create power from nothing.

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