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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.

Bernard Crick

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Fundamentals

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Use
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.
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Guarantees Political
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair
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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Political
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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Condescension
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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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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Acting What
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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 Order Professor
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Order
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Consistency Skills
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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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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Order Real
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine
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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Firsts Real

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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