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Isaiah Berlin

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

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Isaiah Berlin is saying that while problems like injustice and poverty can be fixed through major changes, human life is also about pursuing many different and often conflicting goals. People are driven not just by the desire to eliminate bad things, but by a wide range of positive aims that shape their individual and shared experiences.

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