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Violence4 quotes
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs. — Brian Aldiss · 1969That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third.
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept. — W.H. Auden · 1952Brutality1 quote
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third.
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept. — W.H. Auden · 1952Opposites1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Political theory1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Politics1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Power1 quote
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. — Hannah Arendt · 1969Violent fantasies1 quote
Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs. — Brian Aldiss · 1969