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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Bernard Crick

If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
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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Done Interest Justice
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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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Men Political Politics
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
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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Evil Political Politics
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
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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Groups Method Tyrants
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful

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