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Quotation from Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie
“From whence has he so many Eyes to watch you, if you do not give them?”
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the address to the peoples, trans. Anonymous (1735)
One of a string of questions showing that the tyrant's eyes, hands and feet all belong to his subjects.
Citation: "From whence has he so many Eyes to watch you, if you do not give them?" — Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the address to the peoples, trans. Anonymous (1735). (id discourse-on-voluntary-servitude-q3)
