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

Bernard Crick

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
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
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
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine Social
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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

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