Free men stick their necks out.
BERNARD CRICKFree men stick their necks out.
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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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 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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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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