Quotes from Harold Laski

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We live under a system by which the many are exploited by the few, and war is the ultimate sanction of that exploitation.

Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.

It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit.

The Labor government of 1945, which was put in power by popular vote and did what the people wanted, was nearer the Marxist idea than any of the governments thrown up by revolution, French, Russian or other.