But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.


Five Essays on Liberty (2002) - Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)

Isaiah Berlin Quotes

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to...

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to...

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to...

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to...