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.
BERNARD CRICKFactory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Politics 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.
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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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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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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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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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