Hannah Arendt Power Quotes

What did Hannah Arendt say about Power?

Hannah Arendt has written many quotes about Power. E.g.,

• 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.
• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

What are the top most famous Power quotes by Hannah Arendt?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Power by Hannah Arendt.

• 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.
• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.