Ernest Becker quote: People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor developing initiative, ...

People were always ready to yield theirwills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chancefor developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the greatnineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

~ Ernest Becker ~

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