Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
BERNARD CRICKIndividualism 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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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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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