The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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More Bernard Crick Quotes
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To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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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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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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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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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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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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