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It is a technique, I think, which almost always comes into play when dangerous opinion is challenged by the state.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “It is a technique, I think, which almost always comes into play when dangerous opinion is challenged by the state.”
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Laski identifies a technique used by the state to suppress dangerous opinions.
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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.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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