“The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.”
Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) Polish philosopher and sociologist
Source: Modernity and the Holocaust
“The fear that rules us comes NOT from the outside but from within. Mastering self-control also means stripping the rulers of a prized weapon.”
Rules 2 Rule
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The fear that rules us comes NOT from the outside but from within. Mastering self-control also means stripping the rule…" by Lupe Fiasco?
Lupe Fiasco44
rapper 1982Related quotes
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling (2008)
Source: Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, New Society Publishers (2013) p. 177
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Pt. 2, Ch. 1: The discovery and assumption of old age: the body's experience, p. 288
The Coming of Age (1970)
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Source: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 12: Sunday Evening in London
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen
Source: Kitchen (1988)
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
“Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams Reaching Your Destiny
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
