Harold J. Laski: “A society might be formed, for instance, to discuss and propagate the principles of Tolstoyan anarchy; I do not think…”

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.