Harold Laski Quotes

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We live under a system by which the many are exploited by the few, and war is the ultimate sanction of that exploitation.

Harold Laski
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

Harold Laski
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Harold Laski
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Harold Laski
I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

Harold Laski
In that state of resentful coma that they dignified by the name of research.

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It was like watching someone organize her own immortality. Every phrase and gesture was studied. Now and again, when she said something a little out of the ordinary, she wrote it down herself in a notebook.
Of Virginia Woolf

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If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

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The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

Harold Laski
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

Harold Laski