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

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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.

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

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.