Political Quotes

Harold J. Laski: “An unequal society always lives in fear, and with a sense of impending disaster in its heart.”

On the record
An unequal society always lives in fear, and with a sense of impending disaster in its heart.
Said by
Harold J. Laski

Editor's note · Context

Laski warns that an unequal society breeds fear and a sense of disaster.

Share

More from Harold J. Laski

The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

gutenberg.org

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

gutenberg.org

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation