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.

Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1909 Four Essays on Liberty,
Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century

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