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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Democratic government is no longer an exercise of arbitrary authority from one above, but is an organization for public service of the people themselves--or will be when it is really attained.

In this change government ceases to be compulsion, and becomes agreement; law ceases to be authority and becomes co-ordination. When we learn the rules of whist or chess we do not obey them because we fear to be punished if we don't, but because we want to play the game.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World
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The Man-Made World The Man-Made World by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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