This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Duplessis declares any attempt to challenge the state's authority as intolerable and punishable.
- In plain terms
- He threatens expulsion for dissent.
- What can you take from it?
- Authoritarian regimes suppress opposition.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are the costs of suppressing dissent?
- How can societies balance order and freedom?
Another view
Such statements can stifle legitimate critique and progress.
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