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Quote from Isaiah Berlin,

"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."



By:

Isaiah Berlin (more quotes by Isaiah Berlin or books by/about Isaiah Berlin)


(1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, historian

Source:

1909, Four Essays on Liberty, Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century

Categories:

Ignorance, Individualism, Justice, Revolution, Slavery

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