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Men do not, I believe, resent an environment when they feel that they share adequately in its making and in the end for which it is made.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that people are more likely to accept their environment when they feel involved in its creation.
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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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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.
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