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On Disobedience and Other Essays Quotes

Obedience to a person, institution or power (heteronomous obedience) is submission; it implies the abdication of my autonomy and the acceptance of a foreign will or judgment in place of my own.

Source:Chapter I. Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem, Page 19
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Erich Fromm - On Disobedience and Other Essays Quotes
  • Book: On Disobedience and Other Essays
  • Writer: Erich Fromm
  • Genre: Psychology, Philosophy
  • Published: 1981
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