Quote by Abraham Maslow

The correct thing to do with authoritarians is to take them realistically for the bastards that they are and then behave toward them as if they are bastards. That is the only realistic way to treat bastards. If one smiles and assumes that trusting them and giving them the key to the pantry is going to reform them suddenly, then all that will happen is the silver will get stolen, and, also, they will become contemptuous of the "weak" Americans whom they see as spineless, stupid, unmasculine sheep to be taken advantage of. I have found whenever I have ran across authoritarian students, that the best thing for me to do was break their backs immediately...

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page 92.

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Book: Maslov on Management

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