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We need, that is to say, the gift of criticism rather than the gift of inert acceptance.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “We need, that is to say, the gift of criticism rather than the gift of inert acceptance.”
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Laski advocates for the importance of critical thinking over passive acceptance of traditions.
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Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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.
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