Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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