On the record
The inference I would draw is the quite basic one that in any society men only have an equal interest in freedom when they have an equal interest in its results.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The inference I would draw is the quite basic one that in any society men only have an equal interest in freedom when…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski argues that true equality in society requires a shared interest in the outcomes of freedom.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
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.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…
Other voices in this conversation
