The self-appointed person, Mr Comstock, for instance, merely identifies his private view of moral right with the ultimate principles of ethics; and only the intellectually blind would ask that the citizen be fitted to his vicious bed of Procrustes.
This quote illustrates Laski's criticism of self-appointed censors who impose their moral views on society.
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The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
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