The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
BERNARD CRICKThe unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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