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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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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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Challenges Ideological Political
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty
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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Fundamentals
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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Firsts Real
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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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Political
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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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Economic Individualism Programmed Such
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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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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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Order Real
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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Guarantees Political
Free men stick their necks out.

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Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Neck Sticks
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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Chaos Conservatives Order

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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