Hannah Arendt quote: To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and ...

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

~ Hannah Arendt ~

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To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same....

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