The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
BERNARD CRICKWhere government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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 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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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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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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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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