"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are……" — Isaiah Berlin
"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
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28 Quotes by Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin has 28 quotes on this site.
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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