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.