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Isaiah Berlin 1909 - 1997 | ||||||
In its obituary, The New York Times said that Sir Isaiah Berlin was "a staunch advocate of pluralism in a century in which totalitarians and utopians claimed title to the one, single truth, Sir Isaiah considered the very notion that there could be one final answer to organizing human society a dangerous illusion that would lead to nothing but bloodshed, coercion, and deprivation of liberty." He is best known for his essays, including "Two Concepts of Liberty" (1959) and "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (1953). | ||||||
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| Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. 1959 - from his essay "Two Concepts of Liberty" | ||||||
| Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. 1959 - from Two Concepts of Liberty | ||||||
| If we wish to live in the light of reason, we must follow rules or principles; for that is what being rational is. | ||||||
