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.
BERNARD CRICKTotalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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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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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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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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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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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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