One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.
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Original Citation
Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.
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Current Citation
Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy. Oxford University Press, 2002.
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