The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.
Baruch SpinozaOnly that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza