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A persistent motif is the need to restrain anger and irritation with other people, to put up with their incompetence or malice, to show them the errors of their ways.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
‘policy making is not only about solving public problems, but about how groups are formed, split, and re-formed to achieve public purposes’.
The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar
The Pharisee is the type defined by Fromm as the ‘authoritarian character’, who worships power for its own sake, reveres the powerful and despises the powerless. In other words, the orientation is sadomasochistic – kiss up and piss down. This type will also fear, loathe and seek to suppress those like Christ who have authority and do not need or seek power.
The Age of Absurdity
Michael Foley
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