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.
BERNARD CRICKCertainly 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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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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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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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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 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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