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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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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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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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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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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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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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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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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, 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 attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
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There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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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 political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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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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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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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Bernard Crick
Born:
December 16, 1929
Died:
December 19, 2008
(aged 79)
Bio:
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as 'politics is ethics done in public'.
Known for:
In Defence of Politics (1962)
George Orwell: A Life (1980)
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (2002)
Essays on Citizenship (2000)
The American Science of Politics (1959)
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