The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
BERNARD CRICKFactory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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The 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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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