“To manipulate men, to propel them toward 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.”

About Isaiah Berlin

Philosopher • British

Sir Isaiah Berlin was a British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Born in Riga, Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He...