Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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 idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Free men stick their necks out.
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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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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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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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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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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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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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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