Harold J. Laski: “Power that is unaccountable makes instruments of men who should be…”

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Power that is unaccountable makes instruments of men who should be ends in themselves.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that unaccountable power reduces individuals to mere tools rather than recognizing their inherent worth.

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

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.

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Harold J. Laski: “Power that is unaccountable makes instruments of men who should be ends in themselves.”