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Harold J. Laski: Obviously enough, this attitude runs the grave risk of seeming to abstract a single motive--the desire for wealth--from…

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Obviously enough, this attitude runs the grave risk of seeming to abstract a single motive--the desire for wealth--from the confused welter of human impulses and to make it dominant at the expense of human nature itself.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski warns against reducing human motives to a single desire for wealth, which risks misrepresenting human nature.

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