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Where there was conflict between love of the status quo and a social good which Revolution alone could achieve, he did not, at least in the Moral Sentiments, hesitate to choose the latter.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski notes that when faced with a choice between maintaining the status quo and pursuing social good, one should choose the latter.
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