Hannah Arendt on the Link Between Bureaucracy and Violence

In her classic work 'On Violence', Arendt touches on the relationship between power and violence. Quoting Voltaire, she says the nature of power essentially “consists in making others act as I choose.” If such a definition is true, and “if the essence of power is the effectiveness of command, then there is no greater power than that which grows out of the barrel of a gun,” Arendt writes.