Étienne de La Boétie
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"Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny." --Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1549) by Étienne de La Boétie |
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Étienne de La Boétie (November 1 1530–August 18 1563) was a French judge, writer, political philosopher and friend of Montaigne, author of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire).
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