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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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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power
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. – Neville Chamberlain

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. – A. J. P. Taylor

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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. – Patricia Cornwell

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