?tienne De La Bo?tie (November 1, 1530 - August 18, 1563) on Elections and Authority(published by RevoltSource) |
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French Magistrate, Classicist, Writer, Poet, and Political Theorist
: A French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet, and political theorist, best remembered for his intense and intimate friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian, and civil disobedience thought. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Men are like handsome race horses who first bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while soon learn to enjoy displaying their harness and prance proudly beneath their trappings. Similarly men will grow accustomed to the idea that they have always been in subjection, that their fathers lived in the same way; they will think they are obliged to suffer this evil, and will persuade themselves by example and imitation of others, finally investing those who order them around with proprietary rights, based on the idea that it has always been that way.”
Source: "A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," by ?tienne de La Bo?tie, 1548, translated by Harry Kurz.
"A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," by ?tienne de La Bo?tie, 1548, translated by Harry Kurz.
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