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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Bernard Crick

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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 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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
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

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