Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
出自晋·葛洪《抱朴子·博喻》。名与实不相符者,不会名垂千古;地位高而不称职的人,不免要被夺去位子。
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.