"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."

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Source : "Two Concepts of Liberty". Book by Isaiah Berlin, 1958.

Isaiah Berlin

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.”
“I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.”
“My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.”
“To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.”
“The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)”
“There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball, stabbed to death at a nightclub in Port Allen; Claudee, killed by a woman in New Orleans; Smitty, sent to the state penitentiary at Angola for manslaughter. And there were others who did not go anywhere but simply died slower.”
“If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?”
“Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.”

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