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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness… — Isaiah Berlin

Speech · Philosophical literature · Political literature

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

Isaiah Berlin
Two Concepts of Liberty · 1958
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Current citation
Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.
Original citation
Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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