From Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), French judge, political philosopher and early anarchist, The Politics of Obedience, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1549):
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
