Monday, August 04, 2008

Why liberalism is opposed so fiercely

Clark Shackelford sent me the following quotation this morning:

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, an enemy which is weak. It was incredible that the human species should have arrived at so noble an attitude, so paradoxical, so refined, so acrobatic, so anti-natural. Hence, it is not to be wondered that this same humanity should soon appear anxious to get rid of it. It is a discipline too difficult and complex to take firm root on earth.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous12:55 PM

    This is wonderfully worded.

    Marilyn

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