My point is that men are always entitled to form voluntary associations for the expression of grievance, and for the propagation of ideas which, as they think, will remedy what they believe to be wrong.
Laski defends the right of individuals to form associations to express grievances.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
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