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=Negative=
All of the following come down to
* When I want to hear ''your'' opinion, I'll '''tell''' it to you.
a line I first encountered in a Robert Asprin fantasy novel.
==Plato (ca. 428 BCE–347 BCE)==
==Plato (ca. 428 BCE–347 BCE)==
The greatest principle of all is that nobody, whether male or female, should be without a leader. Nor should the mind of anybody be habituated to letting him (or her) do anything at all on his (or her) own initiative–to his leader he shall direct his eye and follow him faithfully. And even in the smallest matter he should stand under leadership. For example, he should get up, or move, or wash, or take his meals...only if he has been told to do so. In a word, he should teach his soul, by long habit, never to dream of acting independently, and to become utterly incapable of it.
The greatest principle of all is that nobody, whether male or female, should be without a leader. Nor should the mind of anybody be habituated to letting him (or her) do anything at all on his (or her) own initiative–to his leader he shall direct his eye and follow him faithfully. And even in the smallest matter he should stand under leadership. For example, he should get up, or move, or wash, or take his meals...only if he has been told to do so. In a word, he should teach his soul, by long habit, never to dream of acting independently, and to become utterly incapable of it.
Plato, ''Laws'' 942d (350 BCE)
:Plato, ''Laws'' 942d (350 BCE)
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)==
==Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814)==