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Biography - Hannah Arendt:

German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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.



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Translation

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German
Die Revolutionäre machen nicht die Revolution! Die Revolutionäre sind diejenigen, die wissen, wann die Macht auf der Straße liegt und wann sie sie aufheben können!




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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.





Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.





What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.












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