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[Bono]

Soviet Union, circa 1955


Comrade "Extremist": "Khrushchev knows the failures of Stalinism in economics. He should seize the chance and allow full private property in land, give the factories to the workers, allow people to work where they want, and empty the prisons of economic criminals."

Comrade Moderate: "The way you talk! You are only discrediting the cause of reform! Our plan is to permit more personal production on public land, allow more flexibility in wages, speed up the applications process for permits to move, and give more power to regional economic councils so they can be more responsive to the people. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good!"

Comrade "Extremist": "But these are just cosmetic changes, and when they do not work, the cause of reform will have lost. We must tell the truth even if the powers that be don't want to hear it."

Comrade Moderate: "Don't enlist me in your disloyal extremist efforts. What you propose is anarchy. You and your ideas remind me of the enemies of socialism we have worked so hard to eradicate. Better that you be silenced, else responsible reformers will never make any progress."




Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

[Gabu]

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The only problem with this quote is that it's only applicable if you're 100% certain that what you're doing will advance liberty and justice, which is pretty well always impossible.

[Bono]

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The only problem with this quote is that it's only applicable if you're 100% certain that what you're doing will advance liberty and justice, which is pretty well always impossible.

Don't split hairs.