Arendt on Revolution

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>  The
>>  number of such men need not be great; ten men acting
>>  together, as
>>  Mirabeau once said, can make a hundred thousand
>>  tremble apart from
>>  each other.
>>
>>  (Hannah Arendt, _On Revolution_, 1963, p. 116) 
>>  *****
>>  --
>>  Yoshie
>
>Is this optimism?  Can "ten" religious nuts make
>abortions illegal?  Are the multitudes minus 10
>seriously that weak and fractured that "ten" men can
>change it all?  Why those "ten" men and not another
>group of "ten" men????
>
>=====
>Kevin Dean

Don't be so literal-minded.  ;->
-- 
Yoshie

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