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.
BERNARD CRICKThe idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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