Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the …

Hannah Arendt
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1972). Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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