"When a man speaks of the need for……" — Isaiah Berlin
"When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed."
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute…
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of…
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when…
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
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When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the…
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into…
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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You know, I never felt like I was young at the time and obviosly having Mia was absolutely planned. It's…
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[My boys] bloody well will work. Same as myself, same as David. They're not going to be the kinds of…
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Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody…
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