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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
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
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
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

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