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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Bernard Crick

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Done Interest Justice
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Evil Political Politics
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Men Political Politics
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.
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Giving Order Real
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
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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Doctrine Political Politics Problem
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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Firsts Real Reason
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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Discovery Government Need Support
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Condescension Men Praise
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

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