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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.

Bernard Crick

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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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Demand Guarantees Political
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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Demand Fundamentals Problem
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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Giving Order Real
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
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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Discovery Government Need Support
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
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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Firsts Real Reason
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine Social
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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

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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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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