"We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago"

"Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you--although if you can gain your freedom, do so. For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman; similarly, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men." Paul, in "1 Corinthians."

"It is absurd to say that a man shows his liberality in denying his liberty. But it is tenable that he has to affirm a transcendental doctrine in order to affirm his liberty. [...] But it is absurd to forbid him to be a free man and do it in the name of a more free religion."

GK Chesterton in "The Everlasting Man."