The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
BERNARD CRICKIndividualism 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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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