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Both forms of behaviour do real injury to him; neither produces an attitude of conviction.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Both forms of behaviour do real injury to him; neither produces an attitude of conviction.”
Editor's note · Context
He notes that both avoidance and aggression in response to coercion harm the individual and do not foster genuine belief.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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