it takes a rebel to rebel

“Men do not rebel because their conditions of life are intolerable; it takes a rebel to rebel.” --Brian Crozier

via The Game of Nations by Miles Copeland

это по поводу

Most Egyptians, he went on to say, have lived at marginal subsistence for thousands of years and could go on for another thousand.

этот Brian Crozier написал Political Victory: The Elusive Prize of Military Wars и много другого интересного, включая автобиографию Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-91 [pdf]