2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- People : ---------------------------------- Author : ?tienne De La Bo?tie : A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude Text : ---------------------------------- 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. Events : ---------------------------------- 2 -- Added : April 09, 2020 2 -- Updated : May 14, 2022 About This Textfile : ---------------------------------- Text file generated from : http://RevoltSource.com/