Harold J. Laski: “But they are bound to be at least apathetic, and possibly hostile…”

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But they are bound to be at least apathetic, and possibly hostile, when the sense is wide and deep that they are no more than its instruments.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski warns that people may become apathetic or hostile if they feel like mere tools in a system.

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But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.

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

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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Harold J. Laski: “But they are bound to be at least apathetic, and possibly hostile, when the sense is wide and deep that they are no more…”