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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin
Death
Liberty
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, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Isaiah Berlin
Men
Thought
Control
Values
Denial
Will
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.
Isaiah Berlin
Men
Goals
Positive
Fighting
Revolution
Ignorance
Injustice
May
Poverty
Reform
Slavery
Variety
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
Questions
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin
Freedom
Imprisonment
Metaphor
Rest
Sense
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin
Values
Childhood
Desire
Heaven
Past
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin
Men
People
Ideas
First
Silence
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
Ideas
Being