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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Bernard Crick

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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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 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
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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

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