Each, while it is, is real, and each, as real, must give way only in terms of a judgment I make, not of one made for me by some other will, if I am to remain a purposive human being serving myself as an end.
Laski emphasizes the importance of individual judgment in defining one's freedom and purpose.
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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.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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