?tienne De La Bo?tie (November 1, 1530 - August 18, 1563) on Elections and Deception(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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“When the people lose their liberty through deceit they are not so often betrayed by others as misled by themselves.”
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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