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The need to give way to others, to accept, that is, restraint upon our right to unfettered activity is inherent in the nature of things.
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Harold J. Laski
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This statement reflects Laski's belief that accepting limitations on our freedoms is a natural part of existence.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
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