![]() There are two great enemies of politics: indifference to human suffering and the passionate quest for certainty in matters, which are essentially political. These conflicts, when personal, create the activity we call “ethics”… and such conflicts, when public, create political activity. ![]() ![]() Bernard Crick in his book In Defense of Politics wrote, “Politics is… an activity… a complete activity, it is not simply grasping for an ideal, for then the ideals of others may be threatened but it is not pure self-interest either simply because the more realistically one construes the more one is involved in relationships with others… The more one is involved in relationships with others, the more conflicts of interest, or of character and circumstance, will arise. ![]()
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