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Write on the following in about 150 words: The freedom of the pike is death to the minnows.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • Equality and Liberty

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The aphorism is R. H. Tawney's — "Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows" (Equality, 1931) — and Isaiah Berlin quoted it in Two Concepts of Liberty (1958), adding that "the liberty of some must depend on the restraint of others". It is the classic charge against unregulated negative liberty in an unequal…

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