15 Quotes by Harold Laski

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.

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.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

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

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

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

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

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

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.