We are the hero of our own story. - Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

In a head-on clash between violence and power, the outcome is hardly in doubt. Nowhere is the self-defeating factor in the victory of violence over power more evident than in the use of terror to maintain domination, about whose weird successes and eventual failures we know perhaps more than any generation before us. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.