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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.

Bernard Crick

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
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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Done Interest Justice

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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