Harold J. Laski: “The ultimate isolation of the individual personality is the basis from…”

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The ultimate isolation of the individual personality is the basis from which any adequate theory of politics must start.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski posits that the isolation of individual personalities is essential for understanding political theory.

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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.

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Harold J. Laski: “The ultimate isolation of the individual personality is the basis from which any adequate theory of politics must start.”