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In the result the State becomes dissolved into a discrete mass of individuals, and the self-interest of each is the starting-point of all inquiry.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that the state ultimately becomes a collection of individuals driven by self-interest.
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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.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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