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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.

Bernard Crick

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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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Condescension Men Praise
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
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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Demand Guarantees Political
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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Doctrine Political Politics Problem
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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Evil Political Politics
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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Acting Matter Men What
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking

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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