The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.


'Isaiah Berlin: The Value of Decency' (p.104) - Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)


The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.

The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.

The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.

The evil of totalitarianism is not only that it fails to protect specific liberties but that it extinguishes the very possibility of freedom.