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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

7539	To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe]
	Full Idea: If you demand duties from people and will not concede them rights, you have to pay them well.
	From: Wolfgang von Goethe (Maxims and Reflections [1825], 180)
	A reaction: [from 'Art and Antiquity']. ...or have great power over them. Goethe gives the optimistic liberal view, rather than the Marxist view.