[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instructio…

Leo Tolstoy
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[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy
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