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.
BERNARD CRICKCertainly 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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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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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