BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
BERNARD CRICKThe politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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