The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last …

Thomas Merton
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The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). Gandhi on Non-violence, p.14, New Directions Publishing
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