Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic obedience ignorance
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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