"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." - Trevanian
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." - Trevanian
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They dont know, DV.
For all practical purposes there is no such thing as freedom. There is, however, liberty.
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