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When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. … The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.
erik naggum— Re: Lisp's future (Usenet article)
Learn sciences which offer you both your corrective destinies and corrective threats.
— al-Nuri, Mustadrak al?Was?'il, vol.12, pg.166
Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.
warren farrell— p. 356. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education . This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Charles Jarvis, (28 September 1820)
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage ; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
— Andrew Jackson, in Ticknor Curtis Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, Volume 1, Harper & Brothers, 1883, p.46
