Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Harold Laski

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English economist Harold Laski.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Harold Joseph Laski was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. He first promoted pluralism by emphasising the importance of local voluntary communities such as trade unions. After 1930, he began to emphasize the need for a workers' revolution, which he hinted might be violent. Laski's position angered Labour leaders who promised a nonviolent democratic transformation. Laski's position on democracy threatening violence came under further attack from Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1945 general election, and the Labour Party had to disavow Laski, its own chairman.

English - Economist | June 30, 1893 - March 24, 1950

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

Historically, means cannot be separated from ends.

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Harold Laski

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Harold Laski

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.

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

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.

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski