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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More Bernard Crick Quotes
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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 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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Factory 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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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