“Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.”
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 1, section 6.
The Cunning Man (1994)
“Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.”
— Pierce Brown, book Golden Son
Source: Golden Son (2015), Ch. 51: Golden Son
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Context: In man, personality is usually defined with reference to self-consciousness rather than to individuality; but the power of reflection and self-knowledge is linked up, in our type of personality at least, with the new flight of individuality — conscious memory seems necessarily to imply a vast increase of independence, so that it is all one whether we define the possessor of personality as a self-conscious individual, or as an individual whose individuality is more extensive both in space and time than the material substance of his body.
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