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.
BERNARD CRICKWhere government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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 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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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.
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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