On the record
We cannot avoid the impulse to better our condition; and the less its effort is restrained the more certain it is that happiness will result.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “We cannot avoid the impulse to better our condition; and the less its effort is restrained the more certain it is that…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that the natural human drive to improve one's situation leads to happiness when not hindered.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Other voices in this conversation
