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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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.Hannah Arendt
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong how noble Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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