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By AnonymHarold Laski
A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
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By AnonymHarold Laski
The Labor government of 1945, which was put in power by popular vote and did what the people wanted, was nearer the Marxist idea than any of the governments thrown up by revolution, French, Russian or other.
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