Harold J. Laski: “I want merely to note that the idea of a world-state is slowly, painfully, hesitantly, taking shape before our eyes.”

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

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

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.

Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.