“Power arises only when people act in concert. It lasts only as long as that concerted action endures.”

This: https://medium.com/amor-mundi/violence-can-destroy-power-it-cannot-create-it-93c45a636fdd

 “Politically speaking,” Arendt writes in On Violence, “the point is that the loss of power becomes a temptation to substitute violence for power.”

I’ve always thought this was obvious:

Violence can destroy power. It cannot create it.

Hannah Arendt Personal Library here: https://blogs.bard.edu/arendtcollection/

On Violence: https://bardcollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/8481629