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Men Quotes by 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
- The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
- If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility…
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