"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 was a Russian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas known for his defense of liberalism and value pluralism. Born in Riga on 1909-06-06, he became influential through essays such as Two Concepts of Liberty and through his work on intellectual history. He died in Oxford on 1997-11-05.