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Men are not willing to yield the insight of their experience to other men’s insight merely because they are commanded to do so.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Men are not willing to yield the insight of their experience to other men’s insight merely because they are commanded to…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that individuals resist yielding their insights to authority without persuasion.
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To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
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