Berlin Quote by Isaiah Berlin Download Open image “Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.” — Isaiah Berlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Berlin Conscience Equality Ethics Fairness Fairness and equality Freedom Happiness Human happiness Humans Justice Liberty Quiet
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just,… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety… — John Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of… — John Acton Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“True pluralism, as Berlin understands it, is much more tough-minded and intellectually bold: it rejects the view that all conflicts of values can be… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them. — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.' — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image