Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
BERNARD CRICKCertainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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.
BERNARD CRICKBOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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.
BERNARD CRICKThe unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
BERNARD CRICKWhat 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.
BERNARD CRICKIf, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
BERNARD CRICKQuite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
BERNARD CRICKOne 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.
BERNARD CRICKTo Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
BERNARD CRICKToo often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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.
BERNARD CRICKThe plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
BERNARD CRICKThere is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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