The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarian 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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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 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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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