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Quotation by Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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"Introduction" Limits of State Action (1792)Limits of State Action (1792)Limits of State Action (1792, repr. 1854)Limits of State Action (1792, repr. 1854), trans. and ed. by J.W. Burrow (1969)The Limits of State Action (1792, repr. 1854), trans. and ed. by J.W. Burrow (1969)Related Subjects
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835), German statesman, philologist. Ed. and trans. by J.W. Burrow (1969). The Limits of State Action, ch. 16 (written 1792, published 1854).
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