Laski Quotes

#1. You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

Joan Didion

#2. The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

Marghanita Laski

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

Harold Laski

#4. 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

#5. A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Bob Harrington

#6. Man, y'all make the Addams family look like Ozzie and Harriet.(Annie)

Tami Hoag

#7. Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name
I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Ayn Rand

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

#10. Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me ...

Marghanita Laski

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

Harold Laski

#12. There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

Allen Klein

#13. I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Hermann Hesse

#14. 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

#15. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

Anton Corbijn

#16. But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ...

Harold Laski

#18. Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Harold Laski

#19. 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

#20. She wasn't normally one for wishful thinking, but if the ground wanted to open up and swallow her whole, she'd be okay with it. Or if someone wanted to give her an invisibility cloak, that would work.

Amanda Ashby

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

Harold Laski

#22. 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.

Harold J. Laski

#23. 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

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

Harold Laski

#25. Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Harold Laski

#26. The people of the united states were ... spoiled children, who are begging for a frightening but just daddy to tell them exactly what to do

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. One can never be sure of the end, only of the means, and so we must be sure that the means are good.

Marghanita Laski

#28. 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

#29. What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

Marghanita Laski

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

Harold Laski

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

Harold Laski

#32. Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Petra Kelly