On the record
But I could not, for myself, serve principles which claimed to be just if their result was to make the temple of freedom a prison for the impulses of men.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “But I could not, for myself, serve principles which claimed to be just if their result was to make the temple of freedom…”
Editor's note · Context
Here, Laski expresses his conviction that principles claiming to uphold justice should not lead to the oppression of freedom.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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 makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
Other voices in this conversation
