The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
Hannah Arendtthe fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
Hannah ArendtThe business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
Hannah Arendt