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— Horace"We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority."
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If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
— Tacitus
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