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So long as that is true of our society, we shall continue to deny the validity of all principles which attack the existing disposition of social forces.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that societal truths are often denied when they challenge the established social order.
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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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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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