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

Bernard Crick

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
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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 idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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
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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Evil Political Politics
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
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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Condescension Men Praise
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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

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