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Quote by Hannah Arendt
Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, t

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 powers disappearance. – Hannah Arendt

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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on mans capacity for making promises and keeping them. – Hannah Arendt

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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. – Hannah Arendt

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

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The eye sees what it brings the power to see. – Thomas Carlyle

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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. – Marianne Williamson

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The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault

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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster

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