" There can be no friendship where there is cruelty, where there is disloyalty, where there is injustice. And in places where the wicked gather there is conspiracy only, not companionship: these have no affection for one another; fear alone holds them together; they are not friends, they are merely accomplices. "

― Étienne de La Boétie , The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude