Single Idea 7539

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights]

Full Idea

If you demand duties from people and will not concede them rights, you have to pay them well.

Gist of Idea

To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well

Source

Wolfgang von Goethe (Maxims and Reflections [1825], 180)

Book Reference

Goethe,J. Wolfgang: 'Maxims and Reflections' [Penguin 1840], p.21


A Reaction

[from 'Art and Antiquity']. ...or have great power over them. Goethe gives the optimistic liberal view, rather than the Marxist view.