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

- Harold Laski

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

- Harold Laski

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

- Harold Laski

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

- Harold Laski

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot ye…

- 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 amenit…

- Harold Laski

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

- 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

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

- Harold Laski