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He knew that cruelty abroad is the parent of a later cruelty at home.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “He knew that cruelty abroad is the parent of a later cruelty at home.”
Editor's note · Context
This quote reflects Laski's belief that cruelty in colonial contexts leads to domestic moral decay.
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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.
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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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