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| Quotations by Isaiah Berlin |
 Do not live only by fighting evil - Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.Single vision versus many ends - There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision . . . and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory . . .The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes. Liberty is liberty - Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. |
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