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Quote from Isaiah Berlin,


"Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time."


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:

Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, 1950

Categories:

Conformity, Fear, Individualism, Integrity, Privacy, Skepticism

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