Harold Laski Quotes

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ...

Those who know the normal life of the poor ... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.