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Tag: Isaiah Berlin

(1909-1997) Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, historian.

Thought control and conditioning

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 11, 2021Categories collectivizationTags Isaiah Berlin

Humans as objects of the state

But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you — the social reformers — 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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 5, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories collectivizationTags Isaiah Berlin

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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