Friday, May 30, 2003

A very cool quote I found while looking through the Orthodoxy Today archives, here:

Quoting Malcolm Muggeridge:

Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the invasion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of our intellectual elites. Not Bolshevism, which Stalin liquidated along with the old Bolsheviks, not Nazism, which perished with Hitler in his Berlin bunker; not fascism, which was left hanging upside down from a lamppost, along with Mussolini and his mistress---none of these history will record, was responsible for bringing down the darkness on our civilization, but liberalism. A solvent rather than a precipitate, a sedative rather than a stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty; a cracked bell, a mist, a death wish.

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