Absent Quote by Hannah Arendt - Power and violence are opposites; where...

"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 power's disappearance."

— Hannah Arendt

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