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.
BERNARD CRICKWhat 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.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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