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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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Quote #6 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Elections and The Masses
“It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born.”
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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