"What troubles the consciences of Western liberals is not, I think, the belief that the freedom that men seek differs according to their social or economic conditions, but that the minority of who possess it have gained it by exploiting, or at least, averting their gaze from, the vast majority who do not.... Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. If the liberty of myself or my class or my nation depends on the misery of a number of other human beings, the system which promotes this is unjust and immoral..."

Sir Isaiah Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty," in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1969, s. 125.