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Isaiah Berlin Quotes


The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. Isaiah Berlin Chains 131
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin Asking 113
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin death 103
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin Death 97
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. Isaiah Berlin Absolute 80
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. Isaiah Berlin Against 74
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. Isaiah Berlin Appear 73
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. Isaiah Berlin Destroy 64
Â Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. Isaiah Berlin Belief 54
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. Isaiah Berlin Collective 51
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. Isaiah Berlin Justice 51
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. Isaiah Berlin Against 45

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