Liberalism is not being killed by dictators. Liberalism is committing suicide-out of despair and a bad conscience. What liberalism needs is a revival, in the evangelical sense of the word. It needs to admit its sins, as the basis of renewing its life. (Dorothy Thompson)

Liberalism is not being killed by dictators. Liberalism is committing suicide-out of despair and a bad conscience. What liberalism needs is a revival, in the evangelical sense of the word. It needs to admit its sins, as the basis of renewing its life.

Dorothy Thompson

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