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Yet what they see as good may not be so recognizable to us, and may well provoke in us the sense that life would not be worth living if their view was to prevail.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Yet what they see as good may not be so recognizable to us, and may well provoke in us the sense that life would not be…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski expresses concern that the rulers' vision of good may be so divergent from the people's that it could render life unlivable.
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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.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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