"I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but withdraw your support and you will behold him - like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away - fall of his own weight and break into pieces"

Etienne de la Boetie

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

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