Logo
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

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

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

Category:
Promises
Author
Hannah Arendt
Read Quote

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

Category:
Freedom
Author
Hannah Arendt
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal

Category:
power

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. – William Hague

Category:
power

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison

Category:
power

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus

Category:
power

Random Quotes

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. – English professor, Ohio University

Category:
Insults

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you dont pay the price day in and day out, youll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. – Stephen Covey

Category:
Talent

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less… – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Learning

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light. – Chris Cornell

Category:
alone