"'Evil is rarely defeated by people who are unsure they are right,'{2009 Update: Pic from here.}
- Jonah Goldberg, on conservatism of doubt.
'To realise the relative validity of one’s convictions’, said an admirable writer of our time, ‘and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.'
- Isaiah Berlin, 'Two Concepts of Liberty.'"
Monday, November 13, 2006
Not Only Me
It appears that I'm not the only one who thinks Jonah Goldberg is an idiot. Isaiah Berlin has my back (from Andrew Sullivan ):
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