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.
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat the… - Isaiah Berlin
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat the…
- Isaiah Berlin
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. - Isaiah Berlin
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. - Isaiah Berlin
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
To understand is to perceive patterns. - Isaiah Berlin
To understand is to perceive patterns.
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are. - Isaiah Berlin
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positiv… - Isaiah Berlin
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positiv…
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. - Isaiah Berlin
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true. - Isaiah Berlin
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in wha… - Isaiah Berlin
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in wha…
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