Full Idea
Most people are readier to submit to compulsion and punishment than to argument and fine ideals.
Gist of Idea
Most people are readier to submit to compulsion than to argument
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1180a05)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.337
A Reaction
How perceptively pessimistic. We must hope that the picture has changed now that we have fairly universal education. Some people may submit to argument, but NOT to fine ideals.