The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the …

Hannah Arendt
138 citations
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1970). On Violence, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Love
27

More Author Quotes

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and s … ▶
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most … ▶
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ✨ Hannah Arendt ( … ▶
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, wh … ▶
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1981). The Life of the Mind, p.180, … ▶

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1970). On Violence, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes