The present would be different if
they had made the past different.
The future would be different if
we made the present different.
But to make the present different,
people must give up the old trick and
start to play new tricks.
But it takes fanatics to give up
old tricks and play new tricks.
And liberals are so liberal about
everything that they cannot become
fanatics about anything.
And because they cannot become
fanatics about anything, they cannot be
liberators, they can only be liberals.
Liberals don't care to be known
as fanatics, but they are the worst kind
of fanatics.
They don't care to be religious,
philosophical or economic fanatics and
don't mind being liberal fanatics.
(A later version of this Easy Essay concluded with this line:
"And liberals are so broadminded that they don't seem to be able to make up their minds.")
- From the book The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker, edited by Lincoln Rice
Pax et bonum
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