" That's how the world is arranged: they can take anyone's freedom from him, without a qualm. If we want to take back the freedom which is our birthright—they make us pay with our lives and the lives of all whom we meet on the way.
They can do anything, but we cannot. That's why they are stronger than we. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII