The liberal attitude does not say you should oppose authority. It says only that you should be free to oppose authority.
Bertrand Russell
You’re talking about a culture that teaches people how to make moral choices, that teeters very easily into a culture… into a totalitarian, authoritarian culture. But a culture that doesn’t, and that prides itself on not – the way sort of ours does, or has recently… I think we’re just beginning to see, that on either side of the continuum there are terrible prices to pay.
David Foster Wallace in David Lipsky: Although of course you end up becoming yourself