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He is entitled to assume that he will not find the rules of the conduct he ought to pursue objectified in any institution or set of institutions.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that individuals should not expect clear guidance from institutions on moral conduct.
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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