Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
BERNARD CRICKThere is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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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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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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