Notable Quote

"It is therefore the inhabitants of countries who allow themselves to be coerced who are unnatural, since freedom is their natural state; and their slavery is born of their own fault, not of any lack of courage, but rather of some scorn of their natural condition and some unaccountable failure of good sense."

de La Boétie, Étienne event 1576

From Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Context: On natural freedom and the unnaturalness of servitude. From Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. English translation by Harry Kurz (1942).