“We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.”
Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
Episode 2, Chapter 19
The Power of Myth (1988)
“Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.”
in Equality (1931)
sometimes cited as an English proverb, sometimes also attributed to Isaiah Berlin
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