What we need to know is, I suggest, first what those realms of conduct are, and, second, what my duty as a citizen is when I am, in any one of them, prohibited from acting as I please.
Harold J. Laski: “What we need to know is, I suggest, first what those realms of conduct are, and, second, what my duty as a citizen is…”
On the record
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Laski stresses the importance of understanding the realms of conduct that define a citizen's freedom.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.





