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

Bernard Crick

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Acting Matter Men What
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
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
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Political Politics Together
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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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