Harold J. Laski: “A man may cut himself off from family or friends; he may refuse membership of a church or vocational body; he cannot…”

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…

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.

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.