--- C.
S. Lewis,in the essay "Democratic Education" (1944), with thanks to Pierre-Yves Saintoyant for the reference
In context:
"A mild pleasure in ragging, or a determination not to be much interfered with,is a valuable brake on reckless planning and a valuable curb on the meddlesomeness of minor officials. Envy bleating "I'm as suited as you", is, and on the other hand,the hotbed of Fascism. You are going approximately to take away the one and foment the other. Democracy demands that little men should not take huge ones too seriously -- it dies when it is full of little men who deem they are huge themselves !!"
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