“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

“It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The 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.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“Justice means equality for equals, and inequality for unequals.”

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

“…I would rather lay down my life for others’ freedom than die quietly in slavery.”