Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
BERNARD CRICKOne 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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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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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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