BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
BERNARD CRICKThe 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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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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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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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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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