Absent Quote by Hannah Arendt

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

— Rollo May

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular…

— Steven Erikson

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— Hannah Arendt

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

— Anonymous

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

— C. Wright Mills

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

— Hannah Arendt

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a…

— Kenneth Kaunda