Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

The Selected Writings (ed. McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 1981) - ISBN: 9780075542650