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 CRICKWhere government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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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 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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the ‘inner contradictions’ of such a system.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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 agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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