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It tends to think them unimportant if they are urged tactfully, and dangerous if they are urged with vigour.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “It tends to think them unimportant if they are urged tactfully, and dangerous if they are urged with vigour.”
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This statement reflects Laski's view that aristocracy tends to dismiss external ideas based on their presentation.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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