There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
BERNARD CRICKPolitics 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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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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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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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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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 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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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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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