Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives..

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order..

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 ….

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable so….

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority..

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 ….

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states..

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one..

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing..

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible..

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price..

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….

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance..

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy..

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character o….

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself..

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good..

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity..

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 str….

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 eco….

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to politic….