" With Hegel’s remark quoted here (cp. § 35) that the slave is the man who prefers life to freedom, compare Plato’s remark (Republic, 387a) that free men are those who fear slavery more than death. In a sense, this is true enough; those who are not prepared to fight for their freedom will lose it. But the theory which is implied by both Plato and Hegel, and which is very popular with later authors also, is that men who give in to superior force, or who do not die rather than give in to an armed gangster, are, by nature, ‘born slaves’ who do not deserve to fare better. This theory, I assert, can be held only by the most violent enemies of civilization. "

― Karl Popper , The Open Society and Its Enemies