Absence Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— C. Wright Mills

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

— Olivier Razac

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of…

— Denis Diderot

There is no power without justice.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example,…

— William Martin

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and…

— Dan Simmons