La Boetie

From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed...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.