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

Bernard Crick

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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Demand Fundamentals Problem
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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.
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Demand Guarantees Political

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