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I may, in fact, be most fully free when I am most suffused with the sense of compulsion.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “I may, in fact, be most fully free when I am most suffused with the sense of compulsion.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement reflects Laski's paradoxical view that freedom can arise from a sense of compulsion.
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