On the record
Its value both as a check upon bureaucracy, and as a means of making decision genuinely representative in character, becomes the more clear the wider our experience of its functioning.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Its value both as a check upon bureaucracy, and as a means of making decision genuinely representative in character…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski highlights the importance of advisory committees in ensuring representative decision-making.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
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.
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 toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Other voices in this conversation
