Isaiah Berlin Quotes

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin

To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin

Irving Berlin Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

There's no people like show people.
Irving Berlin

You're not sick you're just in love.
Irving Berlin

Milton Berle Quotes

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Milton Berle

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.
Milton Berle

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
Milton Berle

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle

Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Daisy Berkowitz

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
Daisy Berkowitz

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
Daisy Berkowitz

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Daisy Berkowitz

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Daisy Berkowitz

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz

Steven Berkoff Quotes

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
Steven Berkoff

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
Steven Berkoff

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Steven Berkoff

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
Steven Berkoff

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff

Alexander Berkman Quotes

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman

Shelley Berkley Quotes

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.
Shelley Berkley

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
Shelley Berkley

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley