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 CRICKPolitics 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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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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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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