Liberty Quotes

“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it not be that only other professors, or, at least, other thinkers can alone disarm them?”
― Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty

“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of which must inevitably mean the sacrifice of others.”
― Isaiah Berlin, Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty