Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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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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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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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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