“I have not been much in the Romagna, but what little I have seen of the people has given me the impression that they have got, or are getting, into a mechanical habit of violence." "Surely even that is better than a mechanical habit of obedience and submission.” “I don’t think so. All mechanical habits are bad and slavish, and this one is ferocious as well.” The GadflyRevolutionary MovementSlavishnessMechanical HabbitsRevoulutionary Author:E L Voynich
“People were always ready to yield their wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky” PhilosophyFearAntropologiaAgressionErnest BeckerSlavishness Author:Ernest Becker