Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
BERNARD CRICKThe unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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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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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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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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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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