Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority By E. LaBoetie (Philosopher and Writer, 1530-1563)

https://billkatz.substack.com/p/discourse-on-voluntary-servi...

But if not one thing is yielded to him, if without any violence he is simply not obeyed, he becomes naked and undone and nothing, just as when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.