Quotes from Harold J. Laski

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

civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Every theory of social action is ultimately a philosophy of history. It attempts, as best it may, to read in the experience of mankind the lessons which would justify its own special urgency.