Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
BERNARD CRICKTo Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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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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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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