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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

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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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Ideas Simple Technology
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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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Done Interest Justice
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
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
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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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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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Discovery Government Need Support

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