24 março 2008

Carolina Michaelis


Dear súbditos,

I strongly believe that for the last thirty-plus years you have been destroying the kind of persons described below. In your culture, freedom is synonymous with fighting authority. That is a big mistake. Now, you are paying the price for it.

"The word 'authority' comes from the Latin auctoritas which belongs to a family of terms meaning 'to cause to grow', 'to produce'. A person in authority should, accordingly, foster the growth of a society thanks to an invested power to influence or command thought, opinion or behaviour".
(Michael Glazer and Monika K. Hellwig (eds.), The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia, Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2004, p. 59)

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