Tag: Despotism

  • Étienne de La Boétie on Liberty and Tyranny

    Étienne de La Boétie on Liberty and Tyranny

    Étienne de La Boétie on facing corrupt rulers. “Be resolute to serve no more, and you are at once free. I do not ask you to push him, to topple him over, but only to cease sustaining, and you will see him, as a great colossus whose pedestal we’ve shattered, fall of his own weight…