"I see no way to secure liberalism by trying to put its core values beyond any but internal or consensual reasoning. The resulting slide into relativism leaves a disastrous parallel between 'liberalism for the liberals!' and 'cannibalism for the cannibals!'"

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"Is Universalism Ethnocentric?", in C. Joppke and S. Lukes (eds.) Multicultural Questions (Oxford: OUP, 1999) p. 36. Quoted in Steven Lukes, "Liberalism for the liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 4, no. 4 (2001) p. 35