Quote from Isaiah Berlin 

"But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals
which you -- the social reformers -- see, but they may not,
is to deny their human essence,
to treat them as objects without wills of their own,
and therefore to degrade them."

Quote by:
Isaiah Berlin
(1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, historian
Source:
Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958
 
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