Centurion/role

Famous quotes containing the words centurion and/or role:

“When the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:47.

“Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)