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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. |