The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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