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I have not a right to create scandal because I find pleasure or profit in speaking ill of my neighbour.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “I have not a right to create scandal because I find pleasure or profit in speaking ill of my neighbour.”
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Laski argues against creating scandal for personal gain without just cause.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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