The Reason for the Cowardice of Liberals in the Face of Leftist Radicals

Critics of liberalism will note that liberalism’s tendency to let tolerance and openness trump every other virtue renders it peculiarly impotent when faced with substantive moral dilemmas: absolutized, “tolerance” and “openness” become indistinguishable from moral paralysis.

- Roger Kimball

Quoted in The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America