Thursday Philosophizing

The following quote may have been more recognizably relevant in 1960, when it was written by the Spaniard Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978), but even with the end of the Cold War, it still may apply today:

"The trouble today is that the Communist
world understands unity but not liberty,
while the free world understands liberty
but not unity. Eventually the victory may be
won by the first of the two sides to achieve
the synthesis of both liberty and unity."