"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."

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Source : 'Four Essays on Liberty' (1969) 'Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'

Isaiah Berlin

#Ignorance Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Families are always rising and falling in America.”
“In the end, I take my shoes off and stick my feet in, letting the lukewarm water lick at my ankles. It feels good, and not just because Iâ€™m stoned. I make a mental note to add this to Dulcieâ€™s list of things worth living for. For some reason, I keep seeing her rolling her eyes at me, that big, goofy grin stretching her face like Silly Putty. On my private list, I add her smile. She doesnâ€™t have to know.”
“The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.”

Source : Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3
“If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?”
“So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.”

Source : Veronica Franco (2007). “Poems and Selected Letters”, p.69, University of Chicago Press
“We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.”
“God has been with me in my whole career.”
“I'm a typical California boy.”

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