Isaiah Berlin

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#justice #death

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#lambs #liberty #wolves

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#childish #persist #philosophers #questions #who

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#appear #barbarians #came #come #curious

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#first #free #ideas #men #minds

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

To understand is to perceive patterns. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#perceive #understand