Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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 has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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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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