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I do not thereby mean to assume that a man will be the happier the more completely restraints are absent from the society to which he belongs.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski suggests that the absence of restraints does not necessarily lead to greater happiness.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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