Isaiah Berlin Quotes
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin
Quotes to Explore
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins
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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!
Patrick Henry
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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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
Viktor E. Frankl
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Yaron Brook
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
Gabe Newell
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I don’t lose time playing verbal games, trying to remember what I forgot. “I don’t remember your name,” says one octogenarian to another. “Tell me what it is.” The second one pauses: “How soon do you have to know?” he asks.
Bel Kaufman
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.
Eva Figes
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
Ian Williams
Battles
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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin