Utopias Have Their Value -- Nothing So

Both Liberty And Equality Are Among The Primary Goals Pursued By Human Beings Throughout Many Centuries; But Total Liberty For Wolves Is Death To The Lambs, Total Liberty Of The Powerful, The Gifted, Is Not Compatible With The Rights To A Decent Existence Of The Weak And The Less Gifted.

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.

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

Life May Be Seen Through Many Windows, None Of Them Necessarily Clear Or Opaque, Less Or More Distorting Than Any Of The Others.

The Notion Of The Perfect Whole, The Ultimate Solution In Which All Good Things Coexist, Seems To Me Not Merely Unobtainable--that Is A Truism--but Conceptually Incoherent. ......some Among The Great Goods Cannot Live Together. That Is A Conceptual Truth. We Are Doomed To Choose, And Every Choice May Entail An Irreparable Loss.