3The Domination of Souls How Organizations Become Our Keepers
Under the absolute government of a single man, despotism, to reach the soul, clumsily struck at the body, and the soul, escaping from such blows, rose gloriously above it; but in democratic republics that is not at all how tyranny behaves; it leaves the body alone and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: “Think like me or you die.” He does say: “You are free not to think as I do… but from this day you are a stranger among us.… You will remain among men, but you will lose your rights to count as one.…
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
No one can mature in a culture or organization without internalizing aspects of it. We are by nature dependent on family, ...
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