Book V, Chapter 14.
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
1990s, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish
“Every resistance reveals the ego (one's own) in conflict with another.”
Sadism and Masochism : The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty, Vol. 1 (1939), p. 46
Context: An intense, unyielding stubbornness hides beneath an apparent obedience (the patient brings a vast number of dreams; his associations become endless; he produces an inexhaustible number of recollections, which seem to him very important but are actually of little moment; or he goes off upon some byroad suggested by the analyst and leads the latter into a blind alley).
The child manifests the same reactions of defiance and obedience. The child, too, can hide his stubbornness behind an excessive docility (the parent's command: You must be industrious. Industry may become a mania so that the child neither goes out nor has time to sleep). Obedience is the giving up of the resistance; obstinacy the setting up of fresh resistances. This resistance is externally active. We have in recent years had sufficient opportunity to observe the law of resistance (the passive resistance). Activity and defiance show great differences. Defiance is the reaction against activity (aggression) of the environment. It may then manifest itself actively or passively and stands in the service of the defensive tendency of the ego. Every resistance reveals the ego (one's own) in conflict with another.
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 8
General Relation of the Concept System of Thesis and Antithesis
Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 38
“Translated: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Also: About what one can not speak, one must remain silent. (7)
Source: 1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
Source: P.S. I Love You
“If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)
Ch. 24 http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncomrev24.html
A People's History of the United States (1980)
Context: One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
