“True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.”
Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter I, Consolations For Unpopularity, p. 33.
“There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.”
Quoted in Wilford, H: The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution, Manchester University Press, 1995.
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