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2025-03-16 13:58:38

dan on Nostr: Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a ...

Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, "Long live the King!" The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.

- The Politics of Obedience: The discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
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