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 suppor…

- Etienne De La Boetie

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rul…

- Etienne De La Boetie

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

- Etienne De La Boetie

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 rous…

- Etienne De La Boetie

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 servi…

- Etienne De La Boetie