Suppression, doubtless, eases the way of authority, for scepticism is always painful, and to arrive at a conclusion after careful testing of evidence always involves the possibility that authority may have to admit that its conclusions are mistaken.
This quote illustrates Laski's view that authority prefers suppression over the discomfort of questioning its conclusions.
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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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