Dostoyevsky²

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: ‘You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same right as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them, and even multiply your desires.’ This is the modern doctrine of the world. In that they see freedom. And what follows from this right of multiplication of desires? In the rich, is isolation and spiritual suicide; in the poor, envy and murder.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov. In.: Charles Guignon (ed.), The Good Life. Indianopolis: Hackett, 1999, p. 127.