In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death. Love and Saint Augustine (1929)
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. On Violence (1970)