Isaiah Berlin Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Fairness And Equality, Justice, Liberty

  'Two Concepts of Liberty' (1958) p. 10

• One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Race, Class, Ideas

• Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Justice, Choices

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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