Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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