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It is better to guide people like rational creatures than to drive them like beasts
Drawn from what David Hume said
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- David Hume Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776)
It has also been found, as the experience of mankind increases, that the people are no such dangerous monsters as they have been represented, and that it is in every respect better to guide them like rational creatures than to lead or drive them like brute beasts.
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↗Essays, Moral and Political (selection; 1741-1776)gutenberg.org
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