Neither the fact that a mode of conduct may be harmful in excess, nor the fact that, whether harmful or no, society dislikes it, seems to me in itself a just ground for its suppression by the law.
Laski argues that societal dislike or potential harm does not justify legal suppression of conduct.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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