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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast."
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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