Isaiah Berlin Quotes
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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I'm not a natural joiner.
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It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 - so they promise. And I believe it, too.
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Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you’d misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you’d thought.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
