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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, John Wycliff and E.M. Cioran

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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 2. State Legitimacy / b. Natural authority

19613	It is pointless to refuse or accept the social order; we must endure it like the weather [Cioran]
	Full Idea: It is equally futile to refuse or to accept the social order: we must endure its changes for the better or the worse with a despairing conformism, as we endure birth, love, the weather, and death.
	From: E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'The Reactionary')

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / a. Autocracy

19627	Opportunists can save a nation, and heroes can ruin it [Cioran]
	Full Idea: Opportunists have saved nations; heroes have ruined them.
	From: E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'Defense')
	A reaction: Siegfried smashes the staff of Wotan. Napoleon looks like a hero, but he increasingly looks like the single most disastrous figure ever to have emerged in Europe. It took the Germans till 1940 to avenge what he did.