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  • Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

    Freedom   Honor   Resolve  
    "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.
  • It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

    Order   Tyrants   People  
  • Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.

  • It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

    Fall   People   Society  
  • Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

    Freedom   Fall   Hands  
    "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.
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