Harold J. Laski: “And if they are prepared to fight there is no room in the society for…”

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And if they are prepared to fight there is no room in the society for freedom since this is incompatible with habits of violence.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski states that societal violence is incompatible with true freedom.

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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

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Harold J. Laski: “And if they are prepared to fight there is no room in the society for freedom since this is incompatible with habits of…”