Kapuscinski: On Revolution I

From Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book Shah of Shahs (about the last Shah of Iran):

The indispensable catalyst is the word, the explanatory idea. More than petards or stilettoes, therefore, words — uncontrolled words, circulating freely, underground, rebelliiously, not gotten up in dress uniforms, uncertified — frighten tyrants.

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