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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Bernard Crick

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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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 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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Political Politics Together
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
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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Demand Fundamentals Problem
What 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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Acting Matter Men What
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
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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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire

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