Isaiah Berlin

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

― Isaiah Berlin

“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin

“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.”
― Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

“To understand is to perceive patterns.”
― Isaiah Berlin

“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
― Isaiah Berlin