There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
ATTRIBUTION:
Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. “My Hope for America,” pt. 1, Cannibals and Christians (1966).
