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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 #1 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Tyranny
“Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, "Long live the King!" The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
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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