The energy and capacity of which it might make use are not released for action; and the concentration of effective power in a few hands means that the wishes, opinions, needs, of the majority do not receive sufficient consideration.
This quote illustrates Laski's view on how concentrated power undermines the needs and opinions of the majority.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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