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Its values will be so distorted, its apparatus for magnifying that distortion so complete, that it is blinded to the realities which confront it.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgIts values will be so distorted, its apparatus for magnifying that distortion so complete, that it is blinded to the realities which confront it.
Laski discusses how societal values can become distorted, obscuring reality.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.