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They did not ask whether the organization they envisaged was economically profitable, but whether it was ethically right.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski emphasizes the ethical considerations over economic profitability in the envisioned organization, highlighting a moral approach to economics.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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.
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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