Harold J. Laski: “There will never be liberty in any state where there is an excessive…”

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There will never be liberty in any state where there is an excessive concentration of power at the centre.

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Harold J. Laski

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This statement underscores Laski's view that liberty is incompatible with concentrated power.

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If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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Harold J. Laski: “There will never be liberty in any state where there is an excessive concentration of power at the centre.”