“All became so jealous of their own rights that they did their utmost to limit and destroy the rights of others, and made that the focus of their lives. Slavery followed, even voluntary slavery; the weak eagerly submitted to the strong, in order to subdue those even weaker than them. Then there were saints who came to these people, weeping, and spoke to them of their pride, of their loss of joy and balance, of their loss of shame. They were laughed at or pelted with stones.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
