Harold Laski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Numbers #Government #Wealth
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.
-- Harold Laski

#Pain #Mean #Men
A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.
-- Harold Laski

#Loyalty #Healthy #Complacent
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.
-- Harold Laski

#Book #Law #Purses
A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.
-- Harold Laski

#Class #Mind #Materials
Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ...
-- Harold Laski

#Mean #Evil #Good And Evil
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

#Religious #Liberty #Atheism
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
-- Harold Laski

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

#Thinking #Numbers #Society
If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.
-- Harold Laski

#Peace #Fundamentals #Spirit
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
-- Harold Laski

#Liberty #Human Nature
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.
-- Harold Laski

#Liberty #Normal #Politics
Every State is known by the rights it maintains.
-- Harold Laski

#Rights #Government #States

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