“Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.”

A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164.
In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981

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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

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Paraphrased variant: The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness.
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