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

Hannah Arendt
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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
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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

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