 | ?tienne De La Bo?tie (November 1, 1530 - August 18, 1563) on State and Obedience(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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Quote #2 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Obedience
“For the present I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him.”
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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