Our choice is not between . . .

Our choice is not between a “moderate” status-quo oriented regime, and a radical, utopian one. The status-quo is the most unreal of all unrealities. Those who timidly aim at a “moderate” regime simply will not be able to sway the forces of inertia.

Elisabeth Mann Borgese, introductory essay to her edited volume Pacem in Maribus (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972), xxxiv.