The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
BERNARD CRICKWhere government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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.
BERNARD CRICKThere is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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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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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