One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals.... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.


Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)

Isaiah Berlin Quotes

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals.... This is the belief...

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals.... This is the belief...

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals.... This is the belief...

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals.... This is the belief...