The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
BERNARD CRICKTo Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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 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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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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