On Disobedience – Eric Fromme

“In order to disobey, one must have the courage to be alone, to err, and to sin. But courage is not enough…only if a person…has emerged as a fully developed individual and has thus acquired the capacity to think and feel for himself, only then can he have the capacity to say “no” to power, to disobey.

The capacity to doubt, to criticize, and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.”

– Eric Fromme, “On Disobedience”

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