The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
BERNARD CRICKFactory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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